How do I embed a video and use the multimedia widget and not have the file itself show in the page?

[Gregory Muir]

Below is a screenshot from our Confluence. 

I uploaded the video the the page and used the multimedia macro to embed the video itself. It works fine. However, I'm now left with the video file itself showing right below the embeded video. 

Is there anything I can do to have it not show? I can change it to show as a link which is less obnoxious but could I have it not show at all and retain the video on the page? 

Thanks!

• Confluence 6.15.2

[Thomas Bowskill · Accepted solution]

Hi @Gregory Muir 

It should just be a simple case of editing the page and removing the 'file' that sits below the multimedia macro. That grey box below isn't the video file, it's just a thumbnail visual for it that was auto-created when you uploaded it; the video will remain in the page attachments even if you remove any visibility of it on the page itself.

I assume what you did was drag and drop the file onto the page in edit mode, and then add the multimedia macro? When you do that with any file, Confluence assumes you want to display it, so adds a thumbnail. It's safe to delete this thumbnail. If you hit the ellipsis (...) in the top-right of the page, you can see the video under "attachments".

[Gregory Muir]

Oh, interesting. That would explain why a video I deleted from the page was still there. 

Yes, that's exactly what I did -- drag the content to the page. Good to know!