View File Macro

The quality of my embedded PDF displayed on confluence is seriously lower than that of the original PDF, to the point where you can't read the text in the images, and have trouble with some parts of the doc itself.

Is this as designed? And is there a parameter I can use to disable this quality drop?

I have a powerpoint presentation that contain mostly tables or pictures of tables.  When I attach the file and the use the viewfile macro - all of the colors and some of the gridlines in the table disappear.  Any suggestions?

Is it possible to allow this macro to view text attachment files.

e.g.

 
{viewfile:config.txt}

would output the text with the {noformat} tags around it, so its framed and in a fixed pitch font.

Hi,

Is it possible that I can control programatically when I change slides in the power point presentation?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

I have been having trouble displaying

!xxxx.swf!

I only get a blank space

And

{viewfile:xxxx.ppt} or {viewfile:xxxx.pdf}

I get

Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Adobe Flash Player. Get Flash

I recently installed Adobe Flash Player v10 , and thought that could be the cause, by I reverted to v9, and could not solve the problem.

Have you heard any problems like these?

Thanks.

Hi,

At times the quality of a PDF shown with viewfile is dramatic; all text becomes blurry and detail is difficult to discern even on full-screen mode.

The weird thing is that the PDF itself seems to be of good quality, if reading it with Adobe Reader. Any idea?

Is the view file macro (editing feature with hidden title bar specifically) and the Office Connector in general section 508 compliant (Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973)?

Viewfile is not working with the new MS Office versions of powerpoint and word (pptx, and docx).

Viewfile is not displaying PDF's created from the new MS Office suite either

Do you know if there is any work done to support those?

Thank you

Hi.

While the view file macro seems to work well, the performance is too slow to be a practical feature. It might take 30 seconds to load an excel file into a webpage. Everything else seems to run nice and fast.

Is it normal for it to take ages to load spreadsheets? I hate to imagine how slow it would be if multiple people tried to use it at the same time.

Sometimes I also get an error which I think is related to memory as I ran the command to use 512RAM and that fixed the problem for one spreadsheet. Is it supposed to use lots of memory?

If it is normal to be slow and performance hungry is there another way to be able to open, edit and save spreadsheets from confluence? The only other way I can find is with webdav (which has it's own problems and I don't want to make it available to everyone). How come when I open spreadsheets from the attachments page it can't just open it the same way it does from the view file macro? that is how come I can't save them? Is there a way to make this work? a plugin maybe? Or is this by design so you can keep track of versioning etc?

Hello,

When using the viewfile macro in Confluence 2.10.1 to display the contents of a Powerpoint file with Japanese text,
nothing was displayed.

Is this a known issue with double-byte characters and is there a solution to this problem?

thanks,

Neeraj

Is there a way to specify a sheet number instead of a sheet name when using viewfile with Excel files? I'm using scaffolding and reporting to allow end users to select the excel file they want to display, and to select which sheet to display. But I have no way to know the sheet names, so I want to use sheet numbers.

Thanks!

Using this for Word documents does not always work when it has been created on a Mac with Microsoft Word 2008. The error is:

Any ideas?

If I take the same doc and open it up in Word on Windows, re-post it, the macro works.

Hi,

Can the Viewfile macro be made compatible with office 2007? i.e the macro should accept the following types of files:

.pptx

.xlsx

.docx

Thanks!

Shampa Dasgupta

I'm running 2.8.2 and all staff had flash player 9 installed and the viewfile for powerpoint files was working fine.  Everyone in the company has been upgraded to flash player 10 and now the viewfile for powerpoint files is giving a blank screen.

Is there a reason why its not working with Adobe Flash player 10?

Thanks

I found uninstalled the office connector from the plugins repository and reinstalling it fixed the problem.

Would it be possible to render the content of the file (Excel) as a wiki text whith links to the pages in confluence?

Eg. I have a page called ABC. In the uploaded Excel I refer to the page ABC (by mens of plain text not by hyperlink). In viefile mode the link is not recognised.

This is what we get in our environment when clicking on an excel spreadsheet name that is using the viewfile macro.

Could not open 'http://confluence.atlassian.com/plugins/servlet/webdav/Global/DOC/Confluence Documentation Home/Confluence User Guide/Working with Macros/View Fiew Macro/my spreadsheet.xls'.

Microsoft Office Excel cannot access the file 'http://confluence.atlassian.com/plugins/servlet/webdav/Global/DOC/Confluence Documentation Home/Confluence User Guide/Working with Macros/View Fiew Macro/my spreadsheet.xls'. There are serveral possible reasons:

• The file name of path does not exist.
• The file is being used by another program.
• The workbook you are tryign to save has the same name as a currently open workbook.

Has anyone else come across this issue? We can open the file if we go to the Attachments sections but not from the macro itself.

We played around with this macro using an Excel file and found that you risk overwriting each others work when 2 or more people change the Excel file at the same time.

Is it possible to lock a file while it is beeing edited?

If locking is not possible a warning sign that the file is beeing edited on the webpage containing the Office file would also be great.

Thanks,

Kris

Just started trying to us the viewfile macro, however we have hit two issues:

• When prompted for a username and password, it does not take any of our username and passwords. We have LDAP integration with Active Directory. Is there something we are missing
• If we :
  • attach a excel document (would be nice if it supported URL links)
  • reference it from the page using viewfile
  • then open the Spreadsheet change it i.e. delete a load of cells and save it to the hard disk
  • then delete the attachment and re-upload, the Spreadsheet rendering on the Wiki page does not change. I tried purging the attachment cache but this did not help

Again are we missing something?

I am getting the error message " Error formatting macro: viewfile: java.lang.NullPointerException" when clicking the "view" link on the attachment page. Did anyone else have the same issue? Thanks.

why can't i change height on word documents like i can do for powerpoint ?

I've found a bit of an issue with numbering being thrown out when using the viewfile macro with word documents.
If I have a word document with the following headings:

------------------------------

1.  Heading one
           (a) Heading two
           (b) Heading three
2.  Heading four
           (a) Heading five

-------------------------------------
It shows this
---------------------------------------

1.  Heading one
           (a) Heading two
           (b) Heading three
2.  Heading four
           (c) Heading five

I want the wiki to display a word document attached to the page.  I attached the document and typed:

However, I get this display:

What am I doing wrong?  Or is there another macro command for displaying an attached document?

Hello,

Is there a way to prevent the download option from being shown when using the viewpdf

macro? Or is there some other way to display a PDF in a non-downloadable format?

Thank you,

MJ

I am using Adobe Pro v9, and none of the pdf's I am creating display with the viewfile macro (confluence 2.9). Any clues? Should we reboot the server, re-install plug-in?

Help needed

I am using viewfile for displaying a excel files.  For the most part the feature works as expected.  However, I have two problems.

1) Excel graphs are not displaying at all.

2) When I hide rows and columns in Excel the columns are hidden correctly in Confluence.  However the rows that are hidden in Excel are displayed in Confluence.

Any suggestions on how to resolve these would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Chuck

Hi, I would like to just list the attachments using viewfile, rather than viewing them. 

Viewfile creates a link that opens the file via webdav in word/excel/ppt etc.  This "link" is all I want to list.  T

his seems like the best place to request this since viewfile leverages the document object calls correctly in both FF and IE.

"Click to Edit in Word The Attached File: MyDoc.doc"

Can i use this with Version: 2.2.3

When using viewfile to view a word document, I am losing some formatting. 

1. Extra spaces used for precise formatting are removed thereby messing up the formatting of the data.  Tabs do work, but because of the nature of what we are doing, are difficult to set up.
2. text highlighting is not being displayed.

Any suggestions?

Hi,

I was wondering if it's possible to hide the contents of a document when using the viewfile macro, and just display the link that allows you to edit the file.

Thanks,

Chris

The viewfile macro uses the temp directory: <confluence_home>/viewfile. I am an admin, can I delete files in that directory directly? Any affect on Confluence indexing and such?

Hi,

Is it possible to connect JIRA from Excel using macros.

Please advise me if there are any resources available for me to read and try out this.

thanks,

Kulls

We just upgraded from Confluence 2.92 to 3.02 and for some reason the viewfile plug-in is no longer working for new pages.  I tried the

Hi

Would it be possible to document a small note in the Viewfile macro section for displaying word documents. This note will be to indicate to the user that the fonts from the word document recognized by confluence are displayed as is, however if the word document contains a font that confluence does not recognize, then it will display it using the default font of the confluence page if there is such a notion.

Thank you

Cheers
Lumina

We are trying to use this plugin to view pdf files in our installation on Confluence 3.0. 

The plugin works, but its unbearably slow when using Internet Explorer 7.   At times the browser will freeze for 10+ seconds until the pdf loads.  Using IE6 the plugin is very snappy and returns the pdf quickly. While not as fast as IE6, using Firefox works as well but is a tad slow.  I am currently running Flash Version 10,0,32,18. 

Are there any known issues with this combination of Flash, IE7 & Confluence 3.0?  Any suggestions on how to debug this would be appreciated.

I see that there have been previous posts about the poor quality of the file when using viewfile on a PDF file. That post sorted out one of my concerns regarding the use of this macro on that particular file type. However, since we updated to Confluence 3.1.1, I notice that there is an issue with the formatting of the text in the display of a PDF when using the viewfile macro. The most common error is that all text is converted to italic and the document is repaginated. The files were displayed correctly in the previous version of Confluence, 2.10.3. Any thoughts on this? Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?

We also have examples of PDF files that are not displayed at all when using viewfile, as well as files where all text is illegible because all characters are shown as squares. Font problem one might think, but the original PDF file looks OK. Any thoughts on this?

Best regards,

Lars

I suggest Confluence team to use and borrow idea from the web PDF previewer that Alfresco Share uses (open source so Confluence devs are able to see the code).

I've opened also a JIRA to show the big difference between the two previewers, all web based.

See:

http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-19115

Hello,

I am trying to use this macro to display a fairly large spreadsheet on the Confluence page. The result is a huge webpage in which the user can see only the smallest upper left corner of the entire spreadsheet. "height=" and "width=" don't work, and neither does saving the spreadsheet at, say 25%. Is there a way to define a zoom or control the size of the spreadsheet when it's displayed?

I'm using the viewfile macro for my xlsx document.  Does text highlighting work with this macro?  I cannot seem to get it to work for myself.

eg.  excel text (with-in a cell) looks like this: Build first building in lower manhattan. - Done - Completed Sprint 1

       confluence texts appears:  Build first building in lower manhattan. - Done - Completed Sprint 1

Hi there!

I am just wondering - I understand for the Excel files that you have to put sheet=name for each sheet you want displayed and I assume this means an individual line for each sheet, such as:

viewxls:name=excel1.xls|sheet=name1

viewxls:name=excel1.xls|sheet=name2

viewxls:name=excel1.xls|sheet=name3 ,etc...

Is there no way to make it display all of the tabs for each sheet so that you can switch between?

Thanks!  :)

Hello,

I would like to hide the EditDocument Button like the first image on the "exemple of usage" part.

We have desactivated webdav and editinword action button, but still this button shows up beside files that use the viewxls or viewdoc macro...

can anybody helps me to get rid of this button?

Thanks for your help.

Michael

When displaying Excel the format of my date are coming through in US format(mm/dd/yy), where I require them in AU format(dd/mm/yy).

They display correctly when in excel by default but not in confluence.

Any suggestions welcomed.

Cheers,

Andy

Hello,

I've added a lot of documents with this macro and it has worked fine so far. I'm wondering if there is a way for Confluence to save old versions of embedded documents once they've been edited.   I know that confluence saves versions of changes made to text but will it save versions of word docs edited? If you have any solutions please let me know!!

Thanks,

Catherine

I attached a word doc in a page say X and X.doc (Word doc).

I want to display the specific sections of the X. doc (word doc) in another page called Y. How to perform this? I tried many ways and i couldnt.

Please could you explain whether it is possible in confluence?

Is there any way to display the menus on top of the view file macro?

Please let me know.

Thanks, 

tkeegan@qbp.com

I am not a Wiki Mark Up user yet.  I am a Mac user having trouble using Macros to embed documents.  I have downloaded the Office Connector as well as NeoOffice and WebDAV Launcher and am not able to effectively upload documents and edit them on the wiki.  I have double checked the versions, am I missing something?  Help!

I can just tell that with confluence 3.4 and Firefox 3.6.11 and Neo Office 3.1.2 Patch 1 it works on actual intel macs until that point, that you want to save a doc back to confluence which does not seem to work or not known how to do it. I did test it today by accident and you can take a look at following issue: Neo Office edit and safe back to confluence.

Current workarounds are to save locally and upload it again as an attachement or to use Parallels, XP, Vista or Windows 7 with Firefox installed on a mac.

Cheers

Please see this latest update comment - to address some of the negative comments in this thread. Hope it helps. Try it out.

When using the viewxls macro to embed an Excel spreadsheet in a Confluence page, any indents / indentations at the beginning of a cell (created using the "Increase Indent" / "Decrease Indent" buttons in the Excel toolbar) are not displayed. 

As a consequence, a column of values in an Excel sheet that represent a hierarchy (with the structure of the hierarchy being defined by the indent level of each value) end up looking like just a flat list when viewed in a Confluence page. 

Is there any fix or workaround for this behavior?  I considered using leading space characters rather than the indent feature of Excel in my worksheet, but that would make the worksheet itself a lot harder to maintain.  (For example, I would be unable to select many cells and indent/unindent them all at the same time -- e.g. when adding a new level to the hierarchy.)  Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hi,

I want to attach a bigger pdf-File. Is there any possibility to point to a single page for example Page 55?

Thanks

Hi All,

how can i specify a wildcard for the file name or tell the makro to show the 1st attachment of the current page?

cheers!

Mat

Hi,

Is there any option on Excel macro to display more than 1 sheet? In my worksheet test.xls, I have 3 sheets(sheet1, sheet2, sheet3) and I would to display all 3 sheet so user can click on sheet and see data from whatever sheet he/she selected.

Please let me know if there is any way to achieve this.

we just upgraded to confluence 3.5 and are running office 2010. When we try to edit an excel spreadsheet it doesn't open the document. Tried it with office 2003 and it works there. Is there a way to get it to work with 2010? this what we are trying to use.

thanks

Rayone

Hi,

what about xlsm-Files (Excel 2007/2010 with Macro)? Knows anyone if these extension is scheduled or is this a no-go?

Thanks,

Markus

We currently have Confluence 3.3. We have a number of visio documents that have been converted to PDF that we're attempting to display using the viewpdf macro. All we get in the PDF viewer is a white screen area with a grey box where one of the items in the workflow displayed on the PDF is located. When we try printing an email to PDF and using the macro, it displays fine, however displaying a PDF with images doesn't seem to work.

We have the latest version of Adobe reader and Flash Player, and have tried this on IE9 and Chrome with the same results. In addition, we have tried a couple different file naming conventions (spaces, no spaces, all lowercase) with no effect. Any idea on why we can't get this to display correctly?

Steve

We just upgraded from Confluence version 2.5.6 to version 3.4.9 and I can no longer use

excel:url=[file://remoteDFSserver/myfilestore/files/myfile.xls]|sheet=1|formatCell=true

I want to be able to display a dynamic file that is updated daily with a script. Any idea how to do this in the new version? I tried to use the view file macro viewxls but this seems to require the file to be attached. The file I want to display is an excel file that list server software versions on a group of servers and is updated daily.

When I'm embedding an Excel file that has hyperlinks, they hyperlinks are expanded and viewable on the page. How do I change it so that the hyperlinks are displayed through the assigned words?

when I upload a word document to confluence and display it on a page by using the following macro

{viewdoc:name=Testing_Design.docx}

 the document was uploaded successfully but I cant view the images on the page.

Can you please suggest a solution to this.?

Hi, we have problems to import a word document by using the macro to Wiki.

Although we had the right file name and the right positipn of the file...we got following answer:

the viewfile macro is unable to locate the attachment "DOK1 on this page

Try to write macro in Excel and upload the file to url via HTTP. Det doesn't work. Why ?

Any link for explaining this or how to solve the problem ?

Thanks in advance