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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 and searchable.
- "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!
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
All within the same simple search interface as your pages, comments, blog posts and users.
Can your share drive do that?