Confluence Top Menu: Anonymous Issues

[Jack]

Like others I was really happy to see the top menu get installed in the Cloud release of Confluence. However it has issues that were not resolved.

When a user is presented with the Confluence window while NOT logged into the software, the menu exposes to anonymous users, information a developer does not want them to have.

1) Here is a list of the menu items that should not be on the menu when logged out:

    Page Name (Document Portfolio)
    Home
    Apps
    Templates
    Create

These also gives the anonymous user a false sense that they have access to the application when they really do not.

2) "Spaces" should be the only option on the menu so an anonymous user can select a space that is available for anonymous view.

Problem: Leaving the above menu items visible gives an anonymous user or even a competitor for that matter, access to sensitive information. Home, for example provides competitors an insight to what I am working on. Even to the point that they can learn about competitive software applications not yet released as documentation is developed.

3) Left Side Bar should not have the menu items Pages or Archived Pages. Again, they give away development information and distract the focus on content.

4) The Meatballs Menu on right side of page in a logged out state should only contain Export Options for Word and PDF. I would also recommend adding RTF to this list as well, if available. The remaining options must be turned off as they provide development/project information we do not want an anonymous user visiting the site to see.

In all honesty what your development team needs to understand that your application is being used in the real world to deliver content to a specific group of users. Should a specific user need real access to development information then they get a login.

We want our user communities to focus on the content the site provides. Not the development information that is currently exposed. It really is none of their business.

When can these modifications be completed?

[Giles B]

Hi Mallory,

You can head to ellipsis.png > Page Information and the pageID will be in the URL. You just need to change the URL from viewinfo.action to viewpage.action.

[Mallory H]

Right now the only way I know to do this is to go to the Edit Page view, and then replace "editpage" with "viewpage" in the URL.  You can't consistently go to the Page Information because it may or may not be using the Page ID to compose the URL (and Tiny URLs are not persistent) - it could be using the page name.  It doesn't appear that there is any consistent place you can go to always find the persistent url that uses the Page ID.

[Rodney Hughes]

Not sure what you mean by "page ID url"

on the page you need to have a link to, press the letter "k" on your keyboard - the link is usable externally (as long as the person receiving it has Permissions to access that Space) and is permanently linked to that page even if you change the title of the page.