Displaying List of Attachments in a Page

Use Confluence's Attachments Macro to display a list of attachments that belong to the current page. It will generate a table like the image shown below.

Screenshot: List of attachments from 'Attachments' macro, including Office documents with 'View' link

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Usage with the Macro Browser

To insert the attachments macro into a page using the Macro Browser,

Open your desired Confluence page, then click the 'Edit' button. The 'Edit Page' mode opens.
Next, click the Macro Browser icon on the editor toolbar. The Macro Browser will open in the middle of the screen.
In the Macro Browser, type the name of your desired macro into the search box at the top right of the window. Macros with a matching name will appear in the centre pane. Click on the desired macro to see its options screen. Here, you can set the macro parameters then click 'insert' to put the macro into the page.

Once you've found the attachments macro, click 'insert' to add it to your page.

Usage with the Wiki Markup Editor

What you need to type

What you will get

{attachments}

	File	Modified
	JPEG File waterfall.jpg	Aug 10, 2005 by Vidya Madabushi
	Labels No labels Preview
	JPEG File office1.jpg	Aug 10, 2005 by Vidya Madabushi
	Labels No labels Preview
	PNG File editProfile.png	Oct 08, 2007 by SarahA
	Labels No labels Preview

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Parameters

Parameters are settings for Confluence macros that allow the user to control their content or presentation. The table below lists relevant parameters for this macro.

Parameter names are displayed differently in the macro browser interface and in wiki markup. Below, parameter names used in the macro browser are indicated in Bold text, while their equivalents in wiki markup are indicated in (bracketed) text. If the latter is not shown, then in wiki markup, the parameter's name should be omitted and only its value should be added immediately after the colon symbol (:).

Parameter	Default	Description
Filename Patterns (`patterns`)	all	Specify which attachments to display using filename patterns.
Include Old Attachment Versions (`old`)	false	Include old attachments versions in the list.
Sort By (`sortBy`)	date	Specify the sort order for attachments. Valid values are "date", "size" and "name".
Allow Upload (`upload`)	false	Adds functionality to allow the upload of new attachments.

Examples

1. Filter Attachments by File Name

{attachments:patterns=.*jpg,.*gif}

Use a comma-separated list of regular expressions to specify the filenames of the attachments you want displayed.

Note

The patterns are regular expressions, so to match a file suffix of 'jpg', use .*jpg, not *.jpg.

Here's a detailed tutorial on regular expressions.

2. Include Old Attachments

{attachments:old=true}

An optional true/false value determines whether to show old versions of attachments. This is set to false by default.

Viewing the List of Attachments

When you view the page, you will see a list of attachments. When the attachment is an Office document, you will see a 'View' link as shown in the screen snippet below.

Screenshot: List of attachments from 'Attachments' macro, including Office documents with 'View' link

Click the 'View' link to view the content of the Office document within Confluence. If you have an Office application installed, you will also be able to launch your Office editor from within Confluence. See Displaying an Office Document in Confluence and Working with the Office Connector.

Attachment Information Icon

When a page you are viewing contains attachments, a small paperclip icon like this: appears next to the page byline. Clicking the paperclip will take you to the 'Attachments View', where the full list of attachments is displayed.

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