📣 Beta: Share content outside your space with access links

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Hello Confluence community 👋

We're excited to announce a new way to share Confluence content with users outside of your space: access links!

Public links are great for external sharing, but many of you have asked for an easier way to share content internally across spaces, too. That's why we built access links: a way to share a single page with any licensed user on your site, without opening up the rest of your space.

You’re invited to join our beta to be among the first to explore access links.

▶️ Sign up for the beta for exclusive early access

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Here’s what you can expect

You decide the audience for your access link

Access links let you share a single page or live doc with users outside of your space. Anyone with the access link can can access the content, and you can choose whether that’s limited to all licensed users on your Confluence site or open to anyone on the internet.

Note: Public links are now a type of access link. Jump to the last section to learn more!

Share a page, not your whole space

Users viewing from access links can immediately understand that their viewing mode is limited. They can view the content itself, but the rest of the space remains private.

Admins stay in control

Admins can configure how access links are used across their sites and spaces, block them when needed, and audit all active links.

Confluence admins can also set defaults at the space level, so they don't have to configure access link settings for every new space individually.

Public links aren’t going anywhere

Public links are now part of access links, one of two access levels you can choose from. Any public links on your site today will keep working exactly as they do now.

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How to join the beta

▶️ Sign up today for exclusive access to start using access links

Note: In order to participate, you'll need a Confluence admin to sign up for this beta. Interested but not an admin? Message your admin to sign up!

Beta program details and eligibility

• The beta is set to launch in July 2026.

• Customers on Premium and Enterprise editions of Confluence are welcome to participate.

• In order to participate, you’ll need an Confluence admin on your Confluence site to sign up for this Beta.

• We will limit the number of participants for this beta so that we can properly manage the feedback that comes in as part of it, and we will reach out to your team if you’ve been accepted into the program.

• Throughout the beta, we will use a private Community group to communicate with all participants. We ask that you provide feedback on the feature and insights about your experience, including usability and performance.

Cheers!

The Confluence Permissions team

[Tomislav Tobijas]

@Cadence Hsu This sounds quite cool! I can see some of our teams using this feature.

Although a question - are there any plans on adding editing capabilities to access links (not public pages)?
I can see some cases where I'd need a few colleagues to work on a page that's maybe located in our restricted space. Currently, I have two options:

• Add them to the space (but then I'd maybe need to reorganize content and restrict the main part of it)
• Move the page/content on which we're working to another space; however, ideally, it should live in our team space.

[Cadence Hsu]

@Tomislav Tobijas Great question! Yes, the ability to set link permissions to access links (can edit vs. can view) is a future improvement we have planned.

And the use case you described is exactly why we created this feature. Even with view-only access links today, you'll be able to share specific pages without adding people to your space or relocating content. Edit-level links will make this even more powerful down the line!

[Dennis Grochowski]

This is an amazing feature you're about to ship. Really love it and I'm convinced our users highly appreciate it once it's ready and the edit permissions are also available.

This takes a great amount of pain setting up individual permissions and restrictions on spaces in a big organization where a lot of differently assigned people try to work together but trying not to break any NDA or restructuring their space to avoid confidentiality issues.

[Rune Rasmussen]

This could potentially solve something our users have been wishing for, for years. Very nice.
Will these Access Links work with the Page Excerpt macro or Sync Blocks?

We would benefit from having a single "IT Knowledgebase Space" where the articles actually live in the Space for the relevant team or application.

[Steven Rhodes]

I've signed up and then realised its Confluence Premium only. Not again!