Attachments or Space Attachments Macro
Asked by rbraynin:

I tried the Attachments macro and it only gives me file name and Modified as available columns to view. I added a label to each attachment and I want this to display, even though you can see it when you click an attachment "open". I switched to Space Attachments macro, and it is displaying all attachments with the Parent page and not only the attachments at the Child page level, even though the attachments are only on the child page and not the parent. What gives? Can I add more columns to the Attachment macro in some unknown way? Why are other attachments coming up in the Space Attachments macro in the table?


Answers:
author: rbraynin
body: Thanks for the quick reply. I would like to show more fields in the displayed list. Is this possible with Attachment Macros? I see how I can add a label, but I want to see the label displayed in the list. When I add the labels I used in the Label field separaed by commas, no values are returned. If I add only one label, I get the files associated with that label.

comments: author: rbraynin
body: For example when I pull in a Jira list I get to pick which fields to display.


author: Jonathan Smith
body: [@rbraynin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2710740)

Confluence is not JIRA or SharePoint :) The points above are out of the box functionality.

There are ways to mod these macros, I am just not well verse in coding.

* <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Edit-the-columns-of-the-Attachments-Macro/qaq-p/362322>
* <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-can-I-add-a-column-to-quot-File-list-quot-Attachment-Macro/qaq-p/95843>


author: Jonathan Smith
body: Hi [@rbraynin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2710740),

Attachments macro shows attachments on that page.

* Attachment labels is a parameter you can utilize with this macro.
* You store files within these macros.

Space Attachments ++shows++ all attachments in your space and has no extra parameters. You are not storing files in this macro, you are viewing all the files though-out the space.

All macros are not created the same :)

- Jonathan

comments: author: Jonathan Smith
body: [@rbraynin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2710740)

*By default* , **File** and **Modified** are what you get. You can see labels and comments if you expand the file (to see properties).

If you click the **paperclip icon** at the top of the page, this attachment's view may be more beneficial for you (though it is an extra click).

- Jonathan


author: Rodney Hughes
body: Hi Jonathan

as "Community Leader" I assume you have some influence on the new feature development??

Like the author of this post, I too (i.e the 4500 users of our Confluence instance) would find in extremely useful to be able to configure the Attachments macro with additional columns - notably "Labels"

Some of our Spaces use a lot of attached documents which they currently record manually in a table on the main page - this is so they can put a column in with a manually assigned document number to the attachments for reference purposes. They can therefore search for a document number and sort the table by the column headings

If the Attachments macro had the ability to show the Labels column, then they could use Labels as the document reference number. They could sort by the Label column and even use normal Ctrl+F in their browser search to find what they are looking for.

Another configurable column would be the name of the last User who uploaded the last document version


author: Jonathan Smith
body: [@Rodney Hughes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853250)

Atlassian makes it so you have just as much pull as myself.

Please review the following link:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/implementation-of-new-features-policy-201294576.html>


author: Rodney Hughes
body: That is good.

I have posted an enhancement suggestion here ...

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-58555>

I hope others will add their comments and votes ...