Looking for a good way to share content from Confluence with non-Confluence users

Question

Greetings. I have a group of users who do not have access to Confluence, that I'm looking to share content from Confluence with. I know I can print a Confluence page as a PDF on a static basis, but I'm wondering at options for basically presenting a report with real-time updates from Confluence, without giving those users access to Confluence.

I would appreciate any ideas about this.

Thanks.

unknown · Answer

Hi @Mark Mulik

The easiest way would be to make your space public in Confluence with anonymous access. However, please bear in mind that the native Confluence elements such as the breadcrumbs, space settings, page history, and comments will also remain accessible.

For confluence cloud, you can control what can be published. I would like to direct your attention to Spacecraft. The app can turn a Confluence space into a slick website with a sidebar on the left. The end result would look a lot like this user guide that is powered by Spacecraft. You could also add multiple Confluence spaces to one site and reflect real time changes as you expect.

WW · Answer

It really depends on why the users don't have access to Confluence. Is it a licensing thing? Is it that they're outside of your network?

Anonymous Access

If users have access to your network and your Confluence instance at all and the problem is that they don't have licenses, then you could enable Anonymous Access (in Data Center). Then you'd need to provide Anonymous Access space level permissions to the spaces you want to share. You could restrict pages that you don't want those users to view, or have a separate space just for Anonymous Access.

JSM

If you've got Jira Service Management (JSM), users can get to content without a license if you connect a project to a Confluence space as a Knowledge Base.

Outside network

If they're outside of your private network, then you're basically looking to recreate Confluence.

You can check the marketplace to see if there are any apps/plugins that would do what you want.

This one is a lot more labor intensive, but you could also literally recreate the content of pages into some other website by using the REST API and having it refresh the destination periodically. This REST API link to docs is for 9.0+.

If you could put why the users don't have access and why they need access to the content but not Confluence, that'd help.

Robert Wen_Cprime_ · Answer

(DISCLAIMER: I don't work for WarsawDynamics.  I am a happy customer)

If you want to go the Marketplace route, there is External Share for Confluence, which includes security features and also allows you to make parts of your page unshared.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220562/external-share-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview