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How to make public just a single page from private space?

Damian Śliwa

I want to share only a single page from my private space with someone who does not have a Confluence account (just for viewing).

How should I configure the access / permissions settings to share only this single page in:
- Global Permissions
- Space Permissions
- Page Restrictions

I found information about sharing the entire space, but I do not know how to do it for a single page. Of course, I do not want to show other pages publicly in my private space.
Any hints?

Accepted answers

Vasiliy Zverev

You could try to alloy public access to this space and restict view to all pages exept one.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You will need to make the space anonymously accessible to the whole world, and then restrict the pages you do not want the world to be able to see.

The best way to do this is:

Global permissions: Allow anonymous access

Space: Anonymous access

Top level Page 1: No restrictions

Top level Page 2: Restricted to the login group

Other spaces - only logged in users (confluence users) can use, not anonymous

All comments

Vasiliy Zverev

You could try to alloy public access to this space and restict view to all pages exept one.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You will need to make the space anonymously accessible to the whole world, and then restrict the pages you do not want the world to be able to see.

The best way to do this is:

Global permissions: Allow anonymous access

Space: Anonymous access

Top level Page 1: No restrictions

Top level Page 2: Restricted to the login group

Other spaces - only logged in users (confluence users) can use, not anonymous

rudolf_jurisic

Isn't there a better way to do this?

To make a single page public within a private space, I would expect the following:

default permissions keeps all pages private
I can enable public view for a specific page

Not the other way around:

set your space public
restrict pages you wish to keep private

My team's confluence space is private, and I would love to make just few pages public. I think this is a common use case.

Paul Weiss_8eqchy

Me too. I am running into the same need here. Using an explicit allow vs. explicit deny configuration like this is much easier to manage, and safer as well.

LS_6t3ah1

I'll add my voice to this. Seems wrong way around. Came looking for exactly this requirement just now.

Kjetil Brekke

+1 for me as well. This should be easier and safer.

Masco

This is terrible. Having thousand of restricted pages. Then you should ALWAYS be awake to REMEMBER any new pages to make them restricted as it should be. Where is the new Steve Jobs to think with the head of the customer again??

Cristian Serb

Yes! Terrible. It's 2021 and this question pops up for 10 years already and there is no solution. I start regretting advocating confluence for the company.

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- is there something on the roadmap for proper sharing?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Atlassian have stated they are not going to break the visibilty/restriction system in this way.

Will Hall_gask00

Confluence still has many benefits but there are so many low hanging fruit items (features) that Atlassian just continually struggles to provide as enhancements, including this one.

As users of other applications we have all most likely experienced this functionality mentioned here in other apps for years. Whether it be Google Docs. Or now MS OneDrive 365.

As well as many of the newer tools continually coming online, Notion.so comes to mind.

And in regards to security concerns of single public page sharing, those can be resolved by notifications in the UI and reporting on the backend - of which pages are public and which are not. The public pages just need the necessary controls.

Will Hall_gask00

And after some additional research today I just discovered the 'Public Links' feature.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/ge/public-links-979425312.html

Very nice enhancement, I stand corrected.

Nicolas Keller

This would be awesome. I can't find it yet on my Confluence page (Site Admin, Cloud version) and the page you've linked is part of the Cloud Growth documentation ("This space contains the documentation for features that are still under development. It is not a permanent part of the Atlassian Cloud documentation.").

So I guess we'll have to wait for the release but the feature sounds awesome and would be a solution to our initial request, so I gladly wait some more time if they'll implement it that way.

Daniel Opoku_45rwb2

Couldn't see it in my settings yet either, so I'm guessing almost 8 months later and we're still waiting on this?

rudolf_jurisic

This feature was released in December 2021!

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/share-content-externally-with-public-links/

As admin, allow the public links feature (Settings > Public Links)
As Confluence user, turn it on/off for specific page

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evanbartlett

Is this "public" as in anyone outside of your organization? I think the OP was asking more about sharing it with a group inside her organization. I've got the same question, I've got content in a private space, and I want to make a single page accessible to other users within my company.

rudolf_jurisic

This is part of the question asked:

I want to share only a single page from my private space with someone who does not have a Confluence account (just for viewing).

Daniel Opoku_45rwb2

Music to my ears, I have pretty much the same requirement as you Rudolf, but I can't see this option in settings, and I am a Site Admin using Confluence on the Cloud. Same on the individual page, looks the same except no Public Links button.

Screenshot 2022-01-24 at 10.55.34.png

geragera

Please, consider making noise in https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSDSERVER-11299 so the feature we all want gets visibility, the permissions scheme of allow-by-default-then-dont-forget-to-restrict is ridiculous.

Joe Norton_467hyf

Calling this solved is a joke. Why on earth should it be required to publish our entire internal documentation library to show one page to customers. We should have gone with Notion.

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