Insert excerpt data not visible in public link of master page

[Manjunath]

Hi community,

I have used the Insert Excerpt macro to pull content from child pages into a master page, and while it appears correctly on the master page, the content is not visible when accessed via a public or external link.

How can this issue be resolved?

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Manjunath According to this page, https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/how-secure-are-public-links/:

What can public link visitors see and do?

Public links offer a way to share individual content items safely with anyone on the internet. This means that visitors to public links are limited in what they can see and do.

On public pages and live docs

Public pages and live docs are designed to be view-only. Visitors to public content can’t:

• Edit the content

• Leave comments

• View comments

• View the Confluence navigation

• View the content tree and breadcrumbs

• View most macros, including those that contain data outside of the shared content, and all third party macros

Public visitors can only view the following macros:

• Status

• Table of Contents

• Info, Tip, Note, and Warning

• Code Block

• Expand

• Excerpt

• Roadmap Planner

• Anchor macro

All other macros are not viewable in the view-only version of the content.

[marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-]

As long as the child pages are not public, the excerpts won't be visible via a public or external link.

[Manjunath]

Even child pages are public link, getting same problem

[Laura Campbell]

@Manjunath Public links are self-contained, meaning they can't know that you are also making child pages available with public links. 

If you have multiple pages you would like to make available to the public, you need to make the space available to anonymous users. You can either make sure the space only contains pages you want to be available to anyone, or you can set restrictions to each page you don't want to be visible.