multi-level download

Question

Hi,

I am creating hierarchical projects in Confluence. Child pages are referenced via links from the parent page. Most pages hold some files as attachments.

My question:

I am aware you can download all attachments from a page. What I would like is to be able to download all attachments from a hierarchical tree structure. Eg. Go to a parent page and say download all and everything attached on that page and all child pages are downloaded. Is that possible?

Merle Fischer · Answer

Hope it helps and gets you what you need ;) . Best of luck.

Gaetano Colosi · Answer

Hi Merle,

Thank you for the reply. Yes that may give us what we need. The structure of our projects is still being worked on. I will try that suggestion on a few dummy pages to see how  suitable it is. Thank you for the suggestion.

Gaetano

Merle Fischer · Answer

Hi Gaetano,

out of the box, this basically doesn't work. If you want that feature it's best to work the other way around. Have one page that stores all attachments, and in the subpages, don't add attaachments at all but add childpages, that have their attachment macro set to use the parent page as a source for attaachments and just use labels of attachments as filters set on the suppages to limit the display down to what you need, also untick the box that gives users the option to upload files on the subpages (they'll still be able to do it technically , but it'll be less inviting to do so...). This does however mean, users have to add attachments to the central storage page and use the correct labels so that childpages are able to display the correct attachments.
Not the ideal way, but depending on what your overall goal is here, this is a way that you could make this work.

Hope this helps a little bit.

Cheers

Merle