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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-22002

Confluence renders attachments with long filenames with an ellipsis rather than a presenting the information to the browser and using css to limit the fieldwidth

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    Description

      Changed from new feature to bug- Original text of description:

      We would like the ability to set attachment macro's column width. Currently "name" column is too short. It doesn't display medium-sized file names very well.
      It will be very helpful to provide a way to limit the "comment" column' width too.

      This presents a usability problem with larger filenames. We probably shorted filenames in this way in the past because of the absence of browser support for the css3 property: text-overflow.

      Most modern browsers now support this property.

      Fix

      There are 2 modules affected by this bug. The attachments macro and the view attachments page (Tools > Attachments).

      To fix the attachments macro, download the version 3.6.7 or newer from the Atlassian Marketplace.

      For most users, that fix should be sufficient and you can stop here. If, however, you also need to fix the view attachments page, you'll have to edit confluence/includes/css/attachments.css and add the following CSS code:

      #viewAttachmentsDiv table.attachments {
    border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
    table-layout: fixed;
}

table.attachments .filename-column {
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 1600px) {
    table.attachments th.filesize-column {
        width: 80px;
    }

    table.attachments th.filedate-column {
        width: 180px;
    }

    table.attachments th.filecreator-column {
        width: 180px;
    }

    table.attachments th.comment,
    table.attachments th.labels {
        width: 200px;
    }

    table.attachments th.actions-column {
        width: 180px;
    }
}

      You will need to delete confluence/includes/css/attachments-min.css for these changes to take effect.

      Then edit confluence/pages/includes/attachments-table.vm and change:

      <th>#sortLink("size", "${sortPathPrefixHtml}size" $action.getText('file.size'))</th>
<th>$action.getText('creator.name')</th>
<th>#sortLink("createddate" "${sortPathPrefixHtml}createddate" $action.getText('columnheading.creation.date'))</th>

      to this:

      <th class="filesize-column">#sortLink("size", "${sortPathPrefixHtml}size" $action.getText('file.size'))</th>
<th class="filecreator-column">$action.getText('creator.name')</th>
<th class="filedate-column">#sortLink("createddate" "${sortPathPrefixHtml}createddate" $action.getText('columnheading.creation.date'))</th>

      and this:

      #if ($showActions == "true")
    <th> </th>
#end

      to this:

       #if ($showActions == "true")
    <th class="actions-column">&nbsp;</th>
#end

      Finally (and most importantly), change this:

      $generalUtil.htmlEncode($generalUtil.shortenString($attachment.fileName, 35))

      to this:

      $generalUtil.htmlEncode($attachment.fileName)

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        Issue Links

          causes

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. CONFSERVER-30112 Actions column in page attachments view overflows when actions are added by plugin points

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. CONFSERVER-30152 Some system attachment actions not visible on Tools->Attachments page

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. CONFSERVER-30659 Resizing the sidebar can cause filenames to disappear on attachment pages

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-31580 Attachment name display too short

          • Closed
          has a regression in

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. CONFSERVER-32209 Only a small fragment of long attachment filenames are rendered on Tools->Attachments page

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. CONFSERVER-36326 Only a small fragment of long attachment filenames are rendered on Tools->Attachments page

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed
          is duplicated by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. CONFSERVER-31375 Try to avoid truncating the filename of the attachment where possible

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

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

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-28498 Attachments name are truncated in the attachment's screen

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-31715 Attachement macro should display long file names properly

          • Closed
          is related to

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-13729 The Attachments macro should be able to select the columns that should be shown.

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-22739 Enhance the attachment macro to allow authors to exclude or include specific columns from output

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-31715 Attachement macro should display long file names properly

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-33486 Attachment action links on Tools->Attachments page are all bunched together

          • Closed
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