Attachment url as parameter in another url

Question

I'm trying to build a Link that contains a parameter which is the URL of an attachment. Something like this:

[http://www.foo.com/stuff?url=^attachment.ext]

I don't have access to user macros and I don't have control over the installed plugins, so I'm working with a mostly stock Confluence 3.5 install. I don't have the Script plugin, but I do have the Run plugin. I've tried a few things with the Run plugin, but I can't quite get what I want. For example:

{run-now:replace=url:[^attachment.ext]}
[Test | h t t p://www.foo.com/stuff?url=$url]
{run-now}

Can anyone suggest another approach?

Thanks!

Tim

Joe Clark · Answer

I'm not sure if that's going to be possible or not :-( It seems like the run macro is a good approach if you don't have the ability to customise Confluence at all or install any plugins.

Tim Pesce · Answer

I do want the full absolute URL, and that is actually what I'm getting. But what I also want is that URL to be interpolated into a hyperlink. The problem that I'm running into is that I can't get the hyperlink to work properly. If I use "replace=url:[^attachment.ext]" then the hyperlink isn't formed correctly, (i.e. this is the generated HTML): [Test | h t t p://www.foo.com/stuff?url=[Test | h t t p://www.foo.com/stuff?url=^attachment.ext] Ultimately what i want is for the HTML to look something like this: Test I'm not sure if this is possible with the Run plugin, but this is the best approach that I've found so far. [The "h t t p" above is my attempt to avoid parse errors in OSQA - read those as "http"]

Joe Clark · Answer

So the problem with your current approach is that you just want the filename and extension, rather than the full absolute URL to the attachment?