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I know this sort of defeats the purpose of a wiki, but it would enable us to still use it for producing "official" documents.
Many corporate project sites that have document management (eRoom to name one) also have a downloadable plugin (standalone program) for handling documents that runs on the users computer. What this plugin essentially does is:
- When the user clicks a link to a document it downloads it and opens it (Word/Excel etc)
- The document is locked for concurrent editing
- When the document is closed the plugin checks if it has been edited, if so it will display a box asking if you wish to upload the change and write a comment.
We use Confluence for a lot of things in our company, but for producing official documentation that we send to our clients it doesn't cut it. I am a big fan of not storing stuff in Word documents but on the Wiki for easy editing and reading. BUT it's too big of a hassle making it work in Word later on if it's all written on the Wiki. Therefore such a feature would enable us to have all the informal info and notes on the Wiki but still working on the offical doc as attachments.
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[CONFSERVER-6012] Edit attachment plugin
Andy Schoenbach
added a comment - We couldn't wait any longer and so have engaged the development of a plugin that will provide this in-line functionality with reserved checkout/check-in. We hope to have it in about a month. We also hope to be able to share it with the wider community.
Its unfortunate that folks have been left to their own on this, but our user base is accustomed to MS Word with Change Tracking for collaboration so having this functionality has become critical to acceptance.
Andy Schoenbach
added a comment - We couldn't wait any longer and so have engaged the development of a plugin that will provide this in-line functionality with reserved checkout/check-in. We hope to have it in about a month. We also hope to be able to share it with the wider community.
Its unfortunate that folks have been left to their own on this, but our user base is accustomed to MS Word with Change Tracking for collaboration so having this functionality has become critical to acceptance. 
carol paige
added a comment - We absolutely require in-line editing of attachments. Andy Schoenbach
added a comment - We also strongly support this.
In fact, the features being requested here appear to be similar or the same as in conf-5932 - Sharepoint-like functionality, i.e. the ability to directly open an attached file, have it locked for concurrent editing (i.e. checkec out in Sharepoint nomenclature), work on it in an MS office application, and then check-it back in.
In that issue it is noted that the WebDav plugin requires a different path, making it non-intuitive for most users.
Andy Schoenbach
added a comment - We also strongly support this.
In fact, the features being requested here appear to be similar or the same as in conf-5932 - Sharepoint-like functionality, i.e. the ability to directly open an attached file, have it locked for concurrent editing (i.e. checkec out in Sharepoint nomenclature), work on it in an MS office application, and then check-it back in.
In that issue it is noted that the WebDav plugin requires a different path, making it non-intuitive for most users.
Anders Sveen
added a comment - Also check out the linked issue. It is strongly related to it, but I'm not quite sure it would give the requested bahaviour for Word etc.
Anders Sveen
added a comment - Also check out the linked issue. It is strongly related to it, but I'm not quite sure it would give the requested bahaviour for Word etc. The Confluence WebDAV plugin is an attempt to make this possible. You can find it here:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/WebDAV+Plugin
Christian Barthelemy
added a comment - I strongly support this request for enhancement.
My company is also using eRoom as our basic collaboration system for projects and on this topic eRoom provides a good solution.
With Confluence, when you need to update an excel attachment it is really cumbersome. I wish we could just open the attachment from Confluence, edit it on-line and then save it back to Confluence.
Christian Barthelemy
added a comment - I strongly support this request for enhancement.
My company is also using eRoom as our basic collaboration system for projects and on this topic eRoom provides a good solution.
With Confluence, when you need to update an excel attachment it is really cumbersome. I wish we could just open the attachment from Confluence, edit it on-line and then save it back to Confluence.
Duplicate of
CONF-2841. Please comment and vote onCONF-2841going forward.