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Linking to Attachments

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Once you have attached a file to a page, you can easily provide a link to it from the page.

This page tells you how to use Wiki Markup to link to an attachment. You can also use the Rich Text editor to link to an attachment.

Images are a special form of attachment. Read about displaying images on a page.

Linking to an attachment on a page

You can link to images and other types of attachments like this:

What you need to type What you will get
[PDF document about linking to attachments|^Linking to attachments attachments.pdf] PDF document about linking to attachments

Where:

'Linking to attachments.pdf' is the name of the file you want to link to.

Linking to an attachment on another page

You can link to any attachment on your Confluence site using the following syntax:

Attached to another page in the same space:

[link alias|pagetitle^attachment.ext|link tip]

Attached to another page in another space:

[link alias|spacekey:pagetitle^attachment.ext|link tip]

Optionally,

  • use an alias to refer to the attachment.
  • provide a link tip for the link.
RELATED TOPICS

Rich Text-Linking to an Attachment
Displaying an Image
Attaching Files to a Page
Displaying List of Attachments in a Page

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