Display File Explorer drives in Confluence

[Kathryn Reddie]

I'm hoping someone can provide me some advice or an add-on that can display File Explorer - potentially including navigation functionality - in Confluence?

Thanks in advance.

Kathryn.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

I've not seen one, and as Confluence is not a file store, I can't see any use for one.  You really don't want to be exploring the Confluence file system on the server, as it's not useful to humans, and even if you did go rummaging, all you'd be able to do is read files (With odd names that bear no obvious relationship to the pages the files are on), you couldn't write.

Could you explain what you were hoping such a function would actually be used for?

[Kathryn Reddie]

Hi Nic,

Thanks for your reply.  I've had a request from one of my companies senior executives, which has prompted this question.

Ultimately, he'd like all staff, regardless of their position in the company, to be able to go to a divisional Confluence space and be able to view the high level folder structures contained in their P drive. (Page restrictions would also come into play.)

As a result, I am exploring what might be possible to enable me to give a considered response. 

Some background info, we have several 'groups' in the company, and each group contains divisions, sections and teams.  Each division either has their own Confluence space, or shares a space with a divisional sibling for all of their policy, guidelines etc.  The P drive contains supporting doco, like powerpoint presentations, contracts etc that is necessary for our day to day work, just not visible in Confluence.  We don't want to replicate the P drive in Confluence, just view / link to it.

Thanks again.

Kathryn.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The best you can do without a lot of coding is

Configure your browsers to understand that the path to a file share means "open this in a file browser"

Embed links to the shared drive as unc paths in confluence, so that the browsers will open them