Date conditional access for guest users

Question

Hi,

Currently we are manually adding guest users to confluence when a project starts and removing them when project is complete. It would be beneficial if we could use a start and end date for guest users. This minimizes the risk of forgetting to remove the user.

Is this an something that can be configured?

Kind regards,
Hendri

Kristian Klima_gtcuat · Answer

Hi @Hendri Lankamp

I admit, my solution is using the right arm to scratch behind the left ear :)

But may you can turn it around, rather than expiring guests permissions... you can expire the content restrictions. I wonder if there's an app in the Marketplace, that would lift or expose restrictions on pages at a certain date....

As a user with no Atlassian affiliation (billing aside :)  ) I am not privy to their plans.

Hendri Lankamp · Answer

Hi Kristian,

Thanks for the quick reply.
Since our guest users only need access towards Confluence/Jira and have no need for other domain functionality's, this would not be a preferable solution. Also the responsibility for user/guest management will shift from our business team towards our IT team.

But again, thanks for looking for a possible solution.

Is the "conditional" start/end date functionality something that we could expect in the future? Our maybe only for guest access?

Kind regards,
Hendri Lankamp

Kristian Klima_gtcuat · Answer

Hi @Hendri Lankamp and welcome.

I can see a SAML SSO based solution - this would work if your access to the Atlassian Org is SAML SSO controlled.

Essentially, you first provision your guests to your SSO environment and set up the access  package - this would be restricted to Atlassian products and have the 'best before' date :)

Then you would invite them as guests. After the best before date, they would lose their access rights as per your SSO settings.