Private Area on Public Page?

Question

Is it possible to have a public facing page with private/administrative information on it that public users can not see?

For instance, let's say I want to have instructions on how to install a certain piece of software. Instead of having multiple documents on it how to install the software and information for admins to only know. It would be great if we could have a section or way to show private information on a public facing page.

Robert Reiner _smartics_ · Answer

Confluence has access privileges for the whole page.

One solution could be:

* Specify the private information on another page with appropriate privileges so that only the intended audience can access it
* Render the fragment from this other page using the Excerpt Macro / Excerpt Include Macro on your page

Unfortunately a user with insufficient privileges will see this:

Error rendering macro 'excerpt-include' : 
User 'null' does not have permission to view the 
page 'SP:Protected Excerpt'.

In "Excerpt Include and Include Page macros cannot handle restrictions" there is a solution to that problem using a user macro. I have not tried this myself, since I use a replacement for the Excerpt Macro from a commercial add-on. But I handle this use case on our Confluence as described above.

If you also require more features using excerpts, checkout the Atlassian Marketplace for the multi-excerpt feature.

Kian Stack Mumo Systems · Answer

Not by default, no.

If you've got a server you could use something like this.  https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211304/secure-content?hosting=server&tab=overview