Confluence
Features – Attach
Attach, track and search your files.
Manage your files the easy way
In Confluence, attached files are not simply uploaded and forgotten. They're a powerful part of sharing information — versioned, linkable, searchable and viewable.
- "People loved the versioning control of pages and attachments, so they actually started using it like a file manager — they share files and uploaded files as attachments; they record comments, and create pages for their attachments." Mingyi Liu at GPC Biotech
All attachments are fully versioned, with comments by their author — showing you when files were attached, by whom and for what purpose:
You can even attach, manage and edit files via Windows Explorer (or any other WebDAV client):
Attached files can be linked like any other Confluence content, and are easy to download. Attached images and multimedia files can also be embedded into your pages.
End share-drive hell!
Shared drives are equally despised in all organisations. Almost without exception, they turn into an unfriendly forest of folders and files named specification.doc, specification-v2.doc, specification-17Nov04.doc, specification-b2.doc and so on.
We've all been there. It's not pretty.
Confluence provides a neat solution to this problem. Besides organising your attachments logically, versioning them and providing an author history, it also makes them searchable and viewable!
Yes, that's right — easily search the full content of your organisation's:
- Microsoft Word documents
- PDF files
- Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
- Microsoft PowerPoint presentations
- HTML, XML, source and text files
- ZIP files
And with the bundled Office Connector, you can view the contents of attached Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF files even if you don't have Office installed.
Scroll through Word and PDF files, deliver PowerPoint presentations, and peek inside Excel files — all within the same simple search interface as your pages, comments, blog posts and users.
Can your share drive do that?