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Is anyone aware of an existing plugin that would let you insert an image into a wiki article by pasting directly from the clipboard? When creating product documentation, we often take screenshots and want to add those screenshots to a wiki article. Saving the screenshot as an image and then browsing to the saved image is not difficult, but can be time consuming when repeated frequently. It would be nice if we could just insert directly from the clipboard (and have the plugin automatically create the attachment and insert the image into the article wherever we paste it).

Case FC2080026

edited Nov 8 at 16:25

adambox♦♦
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asked Mar 8 2011 at 20:57

Mathew Weaver
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	The tricky part would be getting access to the client machine's clipboard. I guess a workaround would be to do something on the client side so that the image is always saved to the exact same path (e.g. "C:\fbimage.jpg") and then tweak the existing plugin to use that hard-coded file name instead of browsing to a file ... that would save a couple of mouse clicks. – Mathew Weaver Mar 8 2011 at 21:10
	Check out fogbugz.stackexchange.com/questions/8744/… I'm still testing it, definitely doesn't work for certain copy-from sources, but does work a lot of the time. – James Dio Jul 19 at 18:48

adambox · Answer 1 · 2012-03-27 16:47:18Z UTC

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This has been implemented. Note that it only works in Firefox

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answered Jun 23 at 17:24

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db · Answer 2 · 2011-03-08 21:29:14Z UTC

I don't believe this is possible without writing a browser extension or using a Java Applet (or some other type of browser object with lower-level access to the system the browser is running on). Browsers inherently do not give web pages access to your clipboard's data for security purposes. Some browsers provide options that allow you to work around this limitation, but it's definitely not a standard (at least not that I'm aware of).

As a workaround, you could use the FogBugz Screenshot Tool (or one of the other image capture tools that integrate with FogBugz) to easily upload screenshots to a case within FogBugz. You could then view that case and copy and paste its images into the wiki that way. Admittedly though, that workaround isn't a whole lot better than just saving each image and uploading it to the wiki directly. :(

Charco · Answer 3 · 2011-05-12 16:03:04Z UTC

The technology is there, but I think it is waiting for someone to build it into wiki software.

Have a look at Google docs (https://docs.google.com). Start a new word processing doc, take a screen clip using whatever you choose, the image is held in your local clipboard, and then just do a Control-V into the doc. Voila, straight into the browser and magically uploaded to some backend somewhere.

It would be excellent to have this functionality in wiki software and certainly reduce the chore of documentation.

Thomas de Nooij · Answer 4 · 2011-06-20 07:32:45Z UTC

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Yes, also Blogger supports the same technology (in Chrome at least). This is an absolute must for using the Wiki for documentation and design documents.

answered Jun 20 at 7:32

Thomas de Nooij
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Feature Request: Ability to paste images from the clipboard into wiki articles

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