Overview

The Attachment Table macro produces a table of attachments based on various selection criteria, including powerful space and page selection.

Further customization is possible by specifying filters to select attachments by name, comment content, and labels. You can select and indicate the order in which columns are to be displayed based on their column name or number. Refer to Columns available to display for details.

The resulting table can be customized and supports most common table capabilities.

Depending on the selection criteria used and a number of attachments, pages, and spaces that need to be processed, this could be a long running process. Choose your selection criteria carefully and consider using the Cache macro to limit the number of times the attachment list generation needs to be done and/or the Future macro to defer processing. The limit parameter described below can also be used to limit processing.

Basic use

This macro can be deployed using any of the following methods:

Selected from the macro browser	Advanced Tables - Attachment Table
Markup shortcut	{attachment-table}

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Parameters

Refer to Use regex expressions to select attachments to learn how to form the regular expressions that are supported by several parameters of the macro.

Click a column heading to toggle the sorting of that column.

Attachment settings

Tabs	Macro editor label	Default	Description	Macro parameter
Page filtering	Source	current page	Select the available source of a page from which you can fetch the attachments. Single page: This is the default option. Select the source Space and Page values from the respective drop-down lists to fetch the attachment from. Regular expression: Enter the respective parameter values as explained in the succeeding four rows.	attachmentSource
	Filter by space key or space name		Enter a regular expression (regex) to match with space keys or space names. Used in combination with the Page name regex parameter to select pages from which attachments are to be chosen. If left blank, the Page to list attachments from parameter is required. The following options indicate: @self - current space or page @home - homepage of current space @parent - parent page of current page or space It is possible that in page preview, before publishing for the first time, the result for @self and @parent are not displayed as expected. Once you save the document, you can view the result as expected.	spaceRegex
	Include personal spaces	Off	Enable to control whether personal spaces matching Space key or space name regex are to be included or not, to process and render attachments from the specified spaces.	includePersonalSpaces
	Filter by page name		Enter a regular expression (regex) pattern to match on page names (titles). Used in combination with the Space key or space name regex parameter to select pages from which attachments are to be chosen.	pageRegex
	Filter by page label		Enter a regular expression (regex) pattern match on page labels. Used in combination with the Page name regex and Space key or space name regex parameters to select pages from which attachments are to be chosen. Pages must match with every selection criteria.	pageLabelRegex
Attachment filtering	Attachment name regex		Enter a regular expression (regex) pattern to match on attachment names. Used in combination with the Attachment comment regex and Attachment label regex parameters to select attachments. Attachment must match with every selection criteria.	attachmentRegex
	Attachment comment regex		Enter a regular expression (regex) pattern to match on attachment comments. Used in combination with the Attachment name regex and Attachment label regex parameters to select attachments. Attachment must match with every selection criteria.	commentRegex
	Attachment label regex		Enter a regular expression (regex) pattern to match on attachment labels. Used in combination with the Attachment name regex and Attachment comment regex parameters to select attachments. Attachment must match with every selection criteria. Matching technique is determined using the Label match option parameter.	labelRegex
	Label match option	single	Specify the manner in which to apply the Attachment label regex parameter (for attachments) and the Page label regex parameter (for pages) when looking for matching labels. The options are: single: An attachment, that has at least one label that matches the Page label regex or Attachment label regex pattern, is considered as selected. all: Page label regex and Attachment label regex are used to match a blank separated list of all labels.	labelMatchOption
Data settings	Columns to display	default columns	Enter a comma-separated list of column names or numbers in any order. When blank, a default set of columns is shown. Columns are enumerated starting at 1. See Columns available for display below for a list of columns.	columns
	Text to display when no attachments match		Enter the text to be displayed when no attachments are found that match the given search criteria. If left blank, no text is displayed if no attachments are found.	textForNone
	Date format	Confluence default	Enter a date format to format the dates in the created and modified columns. Use a simple date format string.	dateFormat
	Limit number of attachments to retrieve	The default value is the admin-configured value for the parameter: Global Configuration > Maximum attachments to process.	Enter the number of attachments that the macro must retrieve.The default value is the admin-configured limit for the parameter Maximum attachments to process in Global Configuration. The field description displays the admin-configured value in Global Configuration. Suppose the user configures a value for the parameter Limit number of attachments to retrieve. In that case, while processing the attachments, the macro considers the least of the value configured between the parameters Limit number of attachments to retrieve, and Maximum attachments to process. The processing stops after the number of attachments found matching the Page filtering selection criteria reaches the least of the value configured. For more information, refer to How to set the maximum number of attachments to process for the Attachment Table macro? The space and page attachments are processed and ordered by the attachment name and displayed on the confluence page.	limit
	Retrieve attachments from child pages	false	Enable this option to list the child page attachments of the specified page in Space and Page parameters in the Page filtering tab. By default, only the attachments on the specified page are displayed. This option works only if Single page is selected in Page filtering > Source.	fromAllChildPages

Common parameters

The parameters listed on this page are a part of our common table capabilities that are available in many macros that produce or modify tables.

Click a column heading to toggle the sorting of that column.

Columns available for display

The Attachment Table macro allows the user to select the columns to be displayed as well as the order in which the columns are to be displayed. A default set of columns is displayed unless an explicit list is provided. You can select and indicate the order in which columns are to be displayed based on their column name or number. Use the columns parameter to specify a comma separated list of column names or numbers.

The column names are case insensitive.

In most cases, the column heading can be used instead of the column name, but there are a few cases where that is ambiguous. In such a case, the first column matching the heading is used.

Default columns for single page attachments	file, size, creator, created, comment
Default columns for multiple page attachments	page, file, size, creator, created, comment

Examples

Other macros

The list of all other macros available within this app is as follows:

Advanced Tables for Confluence

Attachment Table macro - 8.x

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