Hide areas for which no authorisations are available

[Jens Prokoph]

We currently have a problem in Confluence. In the ‘All areas’ overview, employees are shown areas for which they have no authorisation. If they click on the area, they also get the message that they are not authorised for it. However, I would like them not to see this area in the overview at all. How can I configure this?

[Kristian Klima]

@Jens Prokoph It's like you're in a building, you can lock the door and put Verboten on it but you can't hide the actual door :) 

There are 'theme' apps that hide the general Confluence furniture so you might be able to create a permissions/theme app setup that will allow certain group of users access ONLY to the 'themed' versions of spaces, not their Confluence versions and/or other Confluence spaces.

Try looking at Refined and Spacecraft as these work with Confluence permissions.

If you want to take it to another level, look at Scroll Viewport which allows you to create a site with multiple spaces OUTSIDE of Confluence... and control access via your company SSO. If the said users only need VIEW access, you can remove them from Confluence completely. 

[Jens Prokoph]

Hello, please excuse me I usually have it in German and just translated it :D
Yes, it is called ‘spaces’. The funny thing is that only certain spaces are displayed and others are not.
But I also compared the spaces with each other and couldn't see any difference in the authorisations or accesses.

Currently: we have about 25 spaces and 4 of them are also displayed to users who don't actually have authorisation for them