Disabling PDF and Word export

Raymond Wan

 

Dear all,

I'm an administration of our organisation's Confluence on the cloud and I have a question.  It seems that under "Settings | Space Permissions", I can create a group that is unable to export a Space.

However,  I was wondering if it is possible to prevent certain users (i.e., in a group that isn't the administrator's group) from performing an export of a single page?  So, let's say, on each page, "... | Export" is completely removed.  Ideally, it would also be good if we could also prevent them from perform a "print" (i.e., print to file, etc.), but I guess that would be difficult since if you can see a page with a browser, you most likely can print it.

I did find this page which explains how to "disable PDF export", but it seems relevant to just the server and data centre platforms.  Indeed, when I tried these steps and went to "Settings | Manage apps | Confluence PDF Export", no "Disable" button was there.

Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated!  Thank you!

Ray

PS:  I see from this question from 4 years ago that someone else had the same question and there wasn't a solution then.  Just wondering if things have changed and/or if there's an app I can install that could do this.

 

Max Foerster - K15t

Hi @Raymond Wan

I'm not aware of any way to achieve this. Maybe others are. But I would like to ask the general question, why are you trying to keep people from printing and exporting the Confluence contents?

I don't understand the general idea behind it. You would also like to disable the printing option of the browser/operating system. Would you also want to keep users from copying and pasting content to a text editor or making screenshots? I only ask these questions to show you the difficulty of implementing this topic and, at the same time to say that I think it is fundamentally wrong to consider such measures instead of internal communication and training. Who needs access to that pages while not being trusted enough not to print them? Maybe there's a way to solve this with a different approach if you care to explain your use case.

Best, Max