Confluence attachment version numbers displayed in attachments?

[Andy Folland]

Hello folks,

I suspect I know the answer to this already, but just thought I'd ask anyway...

Has anyone ever managed to do something clever with Confluence's attachment version numbers where they're somehow displayed in or on the attachment?

Use case being:
User prints off an attachment, and we know which version they've used because there's a nifty field in the footer or something that displays the Confluence attachment version number.

[Dominic Lagger · Accepted solution]

Hi @Andy Folland 

I don't think this is possible. 

The attachment is only attached to confluence. The attachment isn't changed by confluence as it uploads. Perhaps there is nice version helper app on the marketplace. I couldn't find any with a quick search.

What kind of files / attachments are these? Pictures, PDF, Office documents? 

If you found a solution, let me know! 

Regards, Dominic

[Andy Folland]

Hi Dominic,

I thought as much.
I once tried to achieve something similar in SharePoint (i.e. adding a field to a footer in Word that displayed the SharePoint version number - quite handy, you'd have thought, but not an option).


>> What kind of files / attachments are these? Pictures, PDF, Office documents? 
PDFs and office docs.
I was thinking perhaps some kind of an overlay that would work on both PDFs and office doc attachments that contained a simple Confluence version number field.
Oh well.

Anyway - thanks for replying.
Back to the drawing board then.

Cheers,


Andy