Hi there,

It is difficult to convince users to leave things as they are while recognising behaviour they do not expect.
So we would like to get a countermeasure, such as the option to disable, or downloading and opening a file when clicking on an attachment.

Yes please provide a way to disable previews at least completely.

It is highly frustrating to have to pass by the preview first knowing that confluence is terribly slow and it will never do a better job showing something than a native application, no matter how much you try to achieve it.

Now we are faced with long wait for e.g. a zip of log file to download and be analysed, when I know beforehand that I'll be downloading it anyway to open it in a native application, a proper log viewer or a proper archive manager. Only to wait for that actual download again when Confluence has decided it can't handle the file anyway or the view is highly impractical.

That plugin works fantastic, thanks for sharing @Matin Schiemann.

 Honestly amazed this doesn't already exist in software as popular as Confluence.  I hope Atlassian chooses to implement this officially, as there is no reason any wants an extra click to download a zip file (or view an awful preview of an 8-sheet Excel document)

I agree with joe.moretti, it would great to be able to disable preview feature per page or per attachment.

Also, as the description says "Disable preview for certain file extensions" would be handy too. For example, most (if not all) modern browsers can display PDF files in browser, and I would argue more reliably so than Confluence's preview feature. Personally I don't even use a separate PDF reader software, I use Chrome & Firefox as my readers.

Bump.

Well, as the addon is a gift from https://bitbucket.org/selberg/, you might try to contact him on problems with his work. He might want some compensation though.

i tested on win7, chrome, FF, IE doesn t work

Hi Adriaan,

not in our case, Chrome and Windows 7 / 8 / 10.

Best

Matin

if oyu directly click on the link it opens a preview pane still, you have to right click and open with isn t there a way to disable the preview through the plugin?

Hi All,

Scott Selberg provided an addon which supplies a macro for direct download links of attachments. See:
https://bitbucket.org/selberg/download-attachment/downloads

Works well for us for the time beeing.

Kudos to Scott for his work.

Best

Matin