The Gallery Macro displays a gallery of thumbnail images in a table, based on the images attached to a Confluence page. When viewing the page, a user can click a thumbnail image to zoom into the full-size image and then view the images as a slide show.

See below for instructions on how to add the gallery macro to your page.

The gallery macro appears as in the screenshot below.

 

On this page:

Screenshot: The Gallery Macro in Confluence

 

Using the Gallery Macro

To insert the Gallery macro into a page:

  1. In the Confluence editor, choose Insert > Other Macros.
  2. Find and select the required macro.

Speeding up macro entry with autocomplete:

Type { and the beginning of the macro name, to see a list of suggested macros. Details are in Using Autocomplete.

To edit an existing macro: Click the macro placeholder and choose Edit. This will display the parameters of the macro in the Macro Browser.

Parameters

Parameters are options that you can set to control the content or format of the macro output.

The full list of parameters is shown in the following table. If the name of an attached file or page contains a comma, you can refer to it in the relevant parameters below by enclosing it in single or double quotes, for example "this,that.jpg", theother.png

Parameter

Default

Description

Gallery Title

Nothing

Specify a title for your gallery.

Number of Columns

4

Specify the number of columns for your table.

Images to Exclude

No exclusions i.e. include all the pictures on the page.

The gallery will ignore any pictures specified. You can specify more than one picture, separated by commas.
Please note, the filename and filetype for this parameter are case-sensitive, i.e. 'my picture.PNG' will not be recognised as 'my picture.png'.

Include these Images Only

Include all the pictures on the page.

If you specifically include one or more pictures, the gallery will show only those pictures. You can specify more than one picture, separated by commas.
Please note, the filename and filetype for this parameter are case-sensitive, i.e. 'my picture.PNG' will not be recognised as 'my picture.png'.

Use Images in these Pages

If no page is specified, the gallery macro displays the images attached to the page on which the macro is used.

Specify the title of the page which contains the images you want displayed. To specify a page in a different space, use the SPACEKEY:Page Title syntax.

Sort Images By

None, i.e. the sort order is unspecified and therefore unpredictable.

Specify an attribute to sort the images by. Sort order is ascending, unless you select the Reverse Sort parameter (see below). Options are:

  • name – file name.
  • comment – comment linked to the attached file.
  • date – date/time last modified.
  • size – size of the attached file.

Reverse Sort

Off, i.e. sort order is ascending

Used in conjunction with the Sort Images By parameter above. Use Reverse Sort to reverse the sort order, from ascending to descending.

Considerations for using the gallery macro

  • The images shown in the gallery are taken from the files attached to the Confluence page. You can also specify a different page where the attachments are located. For information about attaching images to a page, see Attaching Files to a Page.
  • The comments below the images are drawn from the comments on the attachments. For information about adding comments to attachments, see Attaching Files to a Page.
  • By default, the gallery will include all the images attached to the page. You can also exclude or include images using parameters.
  • Only the following file formats are supported: gif, png, jpeg. The bmp format is not supported.
  • You can sort your images into a particular order.
  • You can specify a title for the gallery and also configure how many columns you want for the table in which your images are displayed.

 

Related Topics

Displaying Images
Attaching Files to a Page
Editing Attachment Properties
Working with Macros

Take me back to the Confluence User's Guide.

Except where otherwise noted, content in this space is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia License.