How to show article names instead of urls to anonymous users?

Question

I have a wiki spaces page that serves as our knowledge base homepage, which contains a few lists of articles that link to other confluence articles in my space.

When I am logged in, I can see that these links resolve to the article name, with a little article icon beside it. However, when I visit the page as an anonymous user, the article icon is gone, and the full url is displayed instead of the article name. (the link still works, and the articles are visible to anonymous users.) I am using the new editor, if that helps.

Is there a setting somewhere to ensure anonymous users see the resolved/friendly names of the articles instead of the full urls?

Thanks!

Daniel Eads · Accepted Answer

Hi Carson,

I've tested this out and found it to be a bug with anonymous pages. The details are documented here on our public Jira instance: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-70140

In terms of workarounds, the only way I found to resolve this was to use the Legacy Template when creating pages. The legacy editor handles page links a bit differently than the new editor does. If you find it vital to have the page links show the page/friendly name to anonymous users, it might be worth looking into using the Legacy editor for the page.

Thanks for reporting this!

Cheers,
Daniel