Starting from SamePage 3.4, the Attachment Tab replaces the the History Tab. It appears on the top of every page along with the View, Discussion and Edit tabs.
The attachment tab is a way to easily access and see all the attachments of that page. This way the user can easily keep track of all the attachments and either update it or delete it as needed.
Click on 'Attachments' to go to the page showing all the attachments of the page.
This page displays the following information:
- The file name
- File size
- Name of the creator
- Date created/ last updated on
- Version: This shows the number of times that image has be altered or updated. Every time the attachment is updated the version number increases by one count.
- Description: Any comments written by the user while creating or updating the attachments are displayed here.
- Update/ Remove action options
Click on the field name to sort the attachments in ascending or descending orders.
The 'Download All Attachments' option is a very easy way to download all attachments in one easy click. To download all the attachments, click on the button and accept the download. The attachments will be downloaded as a compressed file (zip file).
The page also provides an option to attach more files. The user can attach a .zip file and extract it contents by checking the 'Extract Zip' check box.
To unzip and extract the contents of the zip file, browse and select the zip file and the check the 'Extract Zip' option and then click on 'Add Attachments'. SamePage will unzip the file and attach each of the individual files to the page.
It is now possible to view and download versions of attachments.
To attach multiple files, click on 'Attach multiple files'.You will be presented with an interface that allows you to select files from your local machine and add them as attachments to your page.
Select files under 'Local Files' that need to be attached and then click on '>' or click on '>>' to move all the files from this folder. Then from the list of 'Selected files' either attach all by clicking on 'Attach All' or attach a few by highlighting them and clicking on 'Attach selected'. Click here for more information on attaching multiple files.
in SamePage 4.0, the maximum size of the Attachments can be limited by providing a number in System Administration -> System Parameters -> 'net.etouch.wiki.maxAttachmentFileSize' property in Mega bytes. If none specified, the value defaults to 10 Mb.
Another way to see all the attachments of a page is to click on the 'Attachments' link present on the view tab. This will just display all the attachments at the end of the page. However
adding /updating /removing or downloading the attachments can be done only through the attachments tab.
Versioning Attachments
If an attachment has been updated then it is possible to see the different versions of the attachment. Click on the
icon preceding the attachment name and all the versions of that attachment will be listed. If there is no
icon preceding the name it means that the attachment has never been updated and hence different versions of it does not exist.
In the above given example, three versions exist for the attachment. Each version can be downloaded by clicking on the version name. To hide the versions click on the
icon preceding the attachment name.
The list displays the version name, size of the file, name of the updater,and date updated.While updating attachments, description and files can be updated separately.
If only the description is changed then version of the attachment will not change.If description is not entered while updating the file then the previously available description will be displayed as is.
Users with read only permission will be able to view the attachments.
