Confluence File Lists: can you create hierarchies and structures for file lists

[snehal bodke]

How to migrate folders data to confluence through API?

[JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_]

I solution suggested by Atlassian is to create a single page in a Confluence page containing ALL attachments of the page & not adding attachments to other pages.

While this is hard to change when you have a running aged system, this is not a bad idea:

1. You won't have any problems with the same file attached more than once.

2. You save storage (because of 1.)

3. You've got a single point of reference for attachments

4. Easy implementation via REST as single page reference & no need to create page before

Tag your attachments with labels to filter them with attachment macros on overview pages:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/attachments-macro-97911315.html

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

This is a better way in the long run, I just fixated on the "hierarchy" asked for.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Files in Confluence are attached to pages, they are not independently stored.  

To get a hierarchy or structure, you need to create pages in the shape you want for the structure (see https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/create-tree-structure-in-confluence/qaq-p/921706 for a very recent discussion on that), and then attach files to the appropriate pages.

To do that via the API, see https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/rest/6.12.1/#content/{id}/child/attachment