This page provides an overview of Confluence's drag-and-drop feature and details on how to set up this feature in Confluence.

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Drag-and-Drop Overview

Confluence's drag-and-drop functionality allows you to drag files onto your browser to attach them to your Confluence pages or blog posts. With the drag-and-drop feature, you can:

  1. Attach multiple files onto a page or blog post when viewing its attachments list. See Attaching Files to a Page for more information.

  2. Attach multiple files onto a page or blog post when in view mode. See Attaching Files to a Page for more information.

  3. Attach multiple files onto a page or blog post when in edit mode. See Rich Text Editor Overview for more information.

  4. Embed Office Documents (including Office 2007 files) and PDF's when in edit mode. See Displaying Office Files in Confluence for more information.

  5. Embed or attach multiple images into a page or blog post when in edit mode. See Inserting an Image for more information.

  6. Cancel individual file uploads.

Requirements for Confluence's Drag-and-Drop Feature

Please read the following requirements, to see if the drag-and-drop feature will work on your computer.

  • Some themes do not support Confluence's drag-and-drop feature.
    • Supported themes: Confluence Default theme, Documentation theme, Easy Reader theme.
    • Themes that are not supported: Left Navigation theme, Clickr theme. You cannot drag and drop attachments into spaces that use these themes.
  • The first time you try to drag and drop a file, your browser will prompt you to install Google Gears onto your PC. (See more details about the prompt below.) Google Gears provides your web browser with the functionality needed to use Confluence's drag-and-drop feature. If you run into difficulty, please follow the instructions on the Google Gears site to install this application on your computer. You need Internet access to install Google Gears. See the requirements of installing Google Gears. Unfortunately, at the moment there does not seem to be an offline installer available.
  • Google Gears supports Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers on Windows, Mac and Linux. Please check the Google Gears website for the most up-to-date browser support details.

To check if Google Gears is already installed on your computer, see the Google Gears documentation.

Supported Web Browsers

Please ensure that you are using one of the web browsers supported by Atlassian. If you are using an unsupported browser or browser version, some features may not work correctly. You can find the list of supported web browsers and browser versions on this page: Supported Platforms.

Prompt to Install Google Gears

  • If you have not yet installed Google Gears and you attempt to drag and drop a file into Confluence (with the exception of the rich text editor), you will be prompted with the following message:

    Screenshot: Generic Confluence Prompt to Install Google Gears



    Click 'OK' to proceed with the Google Gears installation.
  • If you have not yet installed Google Gears and you attempt to drag and drop a file into the rich text editor, you will be prompted with the following message:

    Screenshot: Confluence Prompt to Install Google Gears from the Rich Text Editor

    Save any drafted content before continuing with the installation of Google Gears. The installation process will replace your current Confluence page and you will need to restart your browser after the Google Gears installation has completed.

    Click 'Proceed with Installation' to install Google Gears.

Initial Use

When adding an attachment to a page or blog post in your Confluence site for the first time in a given browser, you will be prompted to allow Google Gears to trust your Confluence site as shown in the following screenshot. If this warning message appears, select the 'I trust this site. Allow it to use Gears' check box and click the 'Allow' button.

Screenshot: Google Gears Security Prompt

Google Gears is not supported on Safari. See CONF-20032 for updates.

Disabling Drag-and-Drop

Your Confluence system administrator may wish to disable the drag-and-drop feature for a variety of reasons, one of which might be to disable the prompt to install Google Gears on their Confluence user's browsers and operating systems.

If you are a Confluence system administrator and wish to disable the drag-and-drop feature, you will need to access the Plugin Manager in your Confluence installation's 'Administration' section and disable the entire 'Confluence Drag and Drop Plugin'. Refer to Installing and Configuring Plugins Manually for details on accessing the Plugin Manager and disabling entire plugins or plugin modules.

Confluence system administrators can also disable the 'drop zone' that appears on the 'Attachments' view by disabling the 'View Attachments Drop Zone' module of this plugin. This removes the drop zone on the 'Attachments' view whilst retaining the drag-and-drop functionality.

関連トピック

Attaching Files to a Page
Add many files to a page at once
Rich Text Editor Overview
Rich Text-Inserting an image
Rich Text-Creating and removing a link

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