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  2. CONFSERVER-25689

Make the attachment macro more configurable to display longer file names

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      Right now, the attachments macro and the attachments page truncate the file name of an attachment when it is displayed on the webpage. It would be better if this was a configurable option that could be turned off, or the maximum number of characters configurable.

            [CONFSERVER-25689] Make the attachment macro more configurable to display longer file names

            emerson.loh added a comment -

            Hi Arthur,

            I am using Confluence ver 5.1.3.
            I tried the solution mentioned above by changing the length from 35->60.
            After the restart of the service, the name on the display still remained the same (truncated).
            Is there any other step missed out?

            emerson.loh added a comment - Hi Arthur, I am using Confluence ver 5.1.3. I tried the solution mentioned above by changing the length from 35->60. After the restart of the service, the name on the display still remained the same (truncated). Is there any other step missed out?

            John Masson added a comment -

            I think this is pretty much the same as CONF-22002 so I'll close it as a duplicate and link it up. You might like to put a watch on that instead.

            John Masson added a comment - I think this is pretty much the same as CONF-22002 so I'll close it as a duplicate and link it up. You might like to put a watch on that instead.

            Arthur van der Molen added a comment -

            As we have problems displaying some long attachment names I reported this behaviour to Atlassian. I found a work-around by pathing the sourcesfile "attachments-table.vm"

            The code looks like this:

            <td class="filename-column">
            #parse ("/pages/includes/attachment_icon.vm")
            <a class="filename" href="$generalUtil.htmlEncode("${req.contextPath}${attachment.downloadPathWithoutVersion}")"
            title="$generalUtil.htmlEncodeAndReplaceSpaces($attachment.fileName)"
            data-filename="$generalUtil.htmlEncode($attachment.fileName)">
            $generalUtil.htmlEncode($generalUtil.shortenString($attachment.fileName, 35))
            </a>
            </td>

            I changed
            $generalUtil.htmlEncode($generalUtil.shortenString($attachment.fileName, 35))
            into
            $generalUtil.htmlEncode($generalUtil.shortenString($attachment.fileName, 65))

            I still think Atlasian should improve this coding/handling by using CSS text-overflow Property and NOT hardcoding some value.

            Arthur van der Molen added a comment - As we have problems displaying some long attachment names I reported this behaviour to Atlassian. I found a work-around by pathing the sourcesfile "attachments-table.vm" The code looks like this: <td class="filename-column"> #parse ("/pages/includes/attachment_icon.vm") <a class="filename" href="$generalUtil.htmlEncode("${req.contextPath}${attachment.downloadPathWithoutVersion}")" title="$generalUtil.htmlEncodeAndReplaceSpaces($attachment.fileName)" data-filename="$generalUtil.htmlEncode($attachment.fileName)"> $generalUtil.htmlEncode($generalUtil.shortenString($attachment.fileName, 35)) </a> </td> I changed $generalUtil.htmlEncode($generalUtil.shortenString($attachment.fileName, 35)) into $generalUtil.htmlEncode($generalUtil.shortenString($attachment.fileName, 65)) I still think Atlasian should improve this coding/handling by using CSS text-overflow Property and NOT hardcoding some value.

              jmasson@atlassian.com John Masson
              47df664813fd John Rimell
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