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To edit an attachment's properties, you need 'Create Attachments' permission which is assigned by a space administrator from the Space Administration screens. See Space Permissions or contact a space administrator for more information.

To edit the properties of an attachment:

  1. Go to the page that contains the attachment.

  2. Choose Tools > Attachments to go to the 'Attachments' view for the page.

  3. Click the Properties link beside the attachment. This will display a new screen.
  4. Make your changes:
    • File Name — Rename or modify the name of the attachment.
    • New Comment — Update the existing comment or enter a new comment.
    • New Content Type — Change the content type of the attachment by entering a valid MIME type.
    • Page — Move the attachment to another page.
  5. Click OK.

Screenshot: Editing an Attachment's Properties

Related Topics

Moving an Attachment
Viewing Attachment Details
Working with Attachments

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  1. Jun 10, 2010

    Todd Day

    We recently uploaded a ton of attachments, but they are all stamped with a similar date, making doing searches based on date kinda useless.  I would like to be able to change the dates of these attachments.

    I tried doing this via WebDAV, but the new date doesn't seem to stick.

    1. Jun 24, 2010

      Luzia Mendes [Atlassian]

      Hi Todd,

      you can manually change the dates by updating the _creationdate_ and/or _lastmoddate_ columns of the _attachment_ table on your database.

      Regards,

      Luzia Mendes

      Atlassian Support

  2. Jun 24, 2010

    Anonymous

    Is there any way to have your graphics be conditional, i.e. if you write a topic and include a graphic, can you set the properties so that it displays in PDF output and not the HTML?

    1. Aug 06, 2010

      Husein Alatas [Atlassian]

      Hi,

      This might not be a timely response. But I have a mere workaround here that might fulfil your requirement:

      1. Install Visibility Plugin
      2. Use the show-if macro of Visibility plugin to only show the picture in PDF export. Here is an example on how it will look like:
        The above wiki-markup will not display the picture in Confluence page, but only in PDF export.

      Hope that helps.

      Cheers,
      Husein

  3. Oct 25, 2010

    Anonymous

    Is there a way of adding user defined fields per attachment so all the attachments can be sorted by a particular property?  For example, we may have MSWord documents that are contracts, FAQ pages, external documents, change requests.  It would be nice to somehow tag each one.