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Darryl St_ Pierre
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August 20, 2019
Chris,
I believe this is an outstanding To-do item for Atlassian. You may want to check out, and watch, this page:https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/confluence-cloud-editor-roadmap-967314556.html
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Chris Rehberg August 21, 2019
It's not listed there. It says the link browser modal has changed and mentions the search algorithm. It also notes that links for anchors on the same page aren't yet done and that they will develop the ability to add links to images. But none of these addresses the ability to use text to link to a downloadable file. I've provided feedback on numerous occasions but with no reply from Atlassian.
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August 22, 2019
Sorry, slightly misunderstood what you were trying to do.
If you drag and drop the file you want to make available, what do you want additionally that is not currently presented?
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Chris Rehberg August 25, 2019
Thanks Darryl.
Dragging and dropping leaves a square-shaped panel with undesirable text and unknown functionality. Clicking it (whilst editing) shows a checkmark. Clicking again removes the checkmark. It is unclear what this does.
"All I want to do" (hint - any time a system user begins a sentence with those words, there's your software pain point right there) is convert my text into a link to download a file. This really is basic HTML 101 from 1992.
Below is an exact screenshot. I simply want the bullet point to be a clickable link allowing the user to download the word doc. I cannot achieve that in the new Confluence Cloud editor. If I drag and drop the file onto the page I get the panel you see below - ugly filename with central characters replaced by an elipsis, file size (totally irrelevant to my audience) and an icon. I don't want it to render as a panel. I simply want my text to be a clickable link. You can imagine how ugly this gets if I want to present, say, five bullet points linking to five different documents.
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August 26, 2019
LOL, "All I want to do" is the phrase of nightmares!
I feel your pain with some of the limitations of Confluence Cloud (though this may very well be a limitation in Confluence Server as well...). The closest I can see to getting the result you want is to use the Attachments macro.
You may want to search the Support site to see if there are any open feature requests for including files as links. If not, open one and reference the issue number here so it's available for others looking for the same thing.
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Chris Rehberg August 26, 2019
Thanks for the suggestion.
If I've done it correctly, I've raised a new bug ticket at the link below. As undocumented loss of functionality I consider it a bug.
https://getsupport.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/35/CA-780365
EDIT: Atlassian replied and pointed me to an earlier ticket for much the same thing:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67523
Cheers.
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Brooke August 29, 2019
Thanks for sharing this. I was wondering the same thing. I definitely want to be able to link to downloadable content. I was surprised to find that changed with the new editor.
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Chris Rehberg September 30, 2019
I just found a workaround - if you still have a page that uses the old editor when you edit it, then if you copy that page (elipsis icon at top-right, then 'copy'), the new page will use the old editor too.
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