Embed an updatable image into a page

Sam Morley-Short

The documentation on displaying images in pages here claims that you can embed images from other pages, but this seems not to be possible in the new editor.

My use case is this: I have an image that I want to embed in many documents simultaneously such that when I update the original image, the embedded versions in all other pages. 

Is this possible? It would seem that if you could embed an image as described in the documentation, then this would be possible via updating the original image, but otherwise, I cannot see how this would be achieved.

Shannon S

Hello Sam,

Welcome to Atlassian Community! It's great to have you.

I've found that the Cloud version of the Display Files and Images article you found mentions the same procedure, as we haven't completely rolled out the new editor yet to all customers. This will be updated as soon as that roll-out is complete.

The feature is, as you have discovered, removed from the new editor.

See our Confluence Cloud Editor Roadmap, under Features that have been removed.

Add attachment from another Confluence page

This feature would let you add an attachment to one Confluence page and then display it on multiple other pages. This would cause a number of dependency issues, such as where someone would unknowingly delete the image from the first page, and it would leave an error on all the other pages. In order to prevent this from happening, we've removed this functionality.

If this functionality was important to you, you can achieve the same thing by using the excerpt and excerpt include macros. The excerpt macro lets you put some Confluence content into an excerpt, which you can then use the excerpt include macro to display on a number of other pages.

Any changes you make to the excerpt will flow through to all the pages that the excerpt include is used on.

I hope that helps, but if you have any feedback, you can share it in our discussion on the new editor.

Take care,

Shannon