An attachment is any file that is included with your page. Examples of attachments are screenshots, photographs, other images, Word documents, presentations, PDF documents, videos and sound files. Attachments are useful when you want to share information that exists in another file format. You can attach files to any page or blog post, provided you have permission to do so.
When a page you are viewing contains attachments, a small paperclip icon appears next to the breadcrumbs. Clicking the paperclip icon will take you to the 'Attachments' view, where you will see the full list of attachments.
N.B. To attach a file, you need the 'Create Attachments' permission. See Permissions and Restrictions. |
We recommend you don't use special characters in page or attachment names, as the page or attachment may not be found by Confluence search, and may cause some Confluence functions to behave unexpectedly. |
There are different ways of attaching files to a page on collaborate.green:
N.B. If you attach a file with the same name as an existing attachment, Confluence will create a new version of the existing attachment. |
N.B. You can drag and drop more than one file at a time onto a page. You cannot drag a folder of files onto a page. |
You can also drag and drop files:
N.B. You can attach than one file at a time. You cannot attach a folder of files. |
You can also browse for, and upload, a file from:
Once you have attached the relevant files, you can display attached images and multimedia content on the page. If the attachment is an Office document, use the View File macro to display the content of the document on the Confluence page. If you have an Office application installed, you will also be able to launch your Office editor from within Confluence. See Displaying Office Files in Confluence and Working with the Office Connector.
Your page can display a list of attachments – these may be the files that are attached to a single page or to any page in the space. You can also display a link to an attachment. When a user clicks the link, the attachment will open, provided that the user has the software application needed to open the attachment.
You can label an attachment, and then use labels to categorise your content. See: Add, remove and search for labels
Using multimedia files you can display movies, animations and videos, and embed audio files on your page. Once you have attached the multimedia file to page, you then edit the page to set where the multimedia content should appear.
Choose one of these methods: