Linking to an attachment

[Richard S]

Is it possible to add a link on a wiki page (page A) to an attachment from another page (page B)?

[Richard S · Accepted solution]

I've found a workaround (unless someone can tell me a better way) ...

If I go to the attachment link and right click to find the url, I can copy it and use it as a weblink on the other page. This effectively allows me to link to an attachment on another page.

[Matthew J. Horn]

That's what I've been doing. Not great but it works.

[Eugene_O_Brien]

Is there some other way to do this now? I don't have any option to copy the url when I right click on an attachment.

Clicking on the attachments opens the preview window, from there I have an option to download, but there doesn't seem to be any way to actually copy the url.

[Tarun Kothuri]

The Link Search tab allows use to search for and add attachments from other pages.

From Atlassian Documentation

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Links

Link to an attachment on another page

Choose Link > Search and enter part of the attachment name.

Type [ and enter part of the attachment file name then select the attachment from the list
(you can hover over each suggestion to see which space the page is from).

[Schalk Lubbe]

Thanks, this works perfectly!

[Florian Wehner]

Just to update this for the current cloud version with the new editor: There is no way to insert links through a search anymore.

The new editor seems to have lost all of the useful functionality at the moment.

[Raffaele Briganti]

Indeed. The search only works with pages but you cannot search for Attachments or other entities.

[Lisejoan]

Sorry to hijack this thread. I cannot a web link or add an attachment on my page in edit mode. I have not placed any permission restriction. What could be wrong? 

[CharlesH]

With Confluence 4 you've still got the option to insert raw wiki markup when editing a page. Hence the "old" approach for linking to an attachment on another page should work just fine. https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Linking+to+Attachments If you're using a version of Confluence prior to 4 then that link will give you the perfect solution. Hard-coding a URL is not so nice...

[Jozef Kotlár]

This issue https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6594 id rather old - as I suggest in the issue comment, smart autoconvert of pasted URL would be handy.