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Extra attachment meta data?
Is there any way to extend the meta data I can enter against an attachment? Maybe by using scaffolding to supplement the attachment info?
Currently, a file can be attached to a page and reported on using the reporting plugin, if wanted (maybe to neaten up the attachments report), but you can only store a comment against an attachment. I would also like to be able to hold things like "Status", "Location", "Document version" (not Confluence's version), etc.
I tried this, but the docStatus text-data field didn't seem to work?!?
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Martin
Currently, a file can be attached to a page and reported on using the reporting plugin, if wanted (maybe to neaten up the attachments report), but you can only store a comment against an attachment. I would also like to be able to hold things like "Status", "Location", "Document version" (not Confluence's version), etc.
I tried this, but the docStatus text-data field didn't seem to work?!?
{report-table}
{local-reporter:content:attachments}
{text-sort:content:title}
{local-reporter}
{report-column:title=Name|injected=true|link=true}{report-link:content:download path}{attachment-icon:contentType=%content type%|fileName=%file name%} %file name%{report-link}{report-column}
{report-column:title=Created Date|injected=true}%creation date > "d MMM yyyy kk.m"%{report-column}
{report-column:title=Description/Comment|injected=true}%comment%{report-column}
{report-column:title=Type|injected=true}%content type%{report-column}
{report-column:title=Status}{text-data:docStatus}{text-data}{report-column}
{report-empty}_No project documents yet_{report-empty}
{report-table}
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Martin
I’m ok
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Inappropriate?There's no easy way that I know of. I've seen cases of using a {table-data} containing an {attachment-data} and other fields used to quasi-associate extra fields with that attachment, but that's about it. Something like this:
{table-data:Attachment Data}
|| Attachment || Status || Extra Details ||
| {attachment-data:Attachment} | {list-data:Status}...{list-data} | {text-data:Extra Details} |
{table-data}
You can then get the meta data for an attachment via a filtered report. Eg:
XYZ Status: {report-block}
{local-reporter:data:AttachmentData|source=XXX}
{text-filter:data:Attachment > reference:value > attachment:file name|include=XYZ.ext}
{local-reporter}
{report-body}{report-info:data:Status}{report-body}
{report-block}
Not exactly pretty, but might be useful. The ideal option would be a separate plugin that gave you a nice UI for adding extra metadata about attachments, and exported a Supplier so Reporting could get that information. But I'm not aware of any such beast.
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