Introducing public links for Confluence - External sharing made simple and secure!

[Rob B]

Hey @Tiffany Chung for this particular use case it's the App 'Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets'. We use this to do scope of work calculations in Confluence tables, but when we share these scopes via public link to clients, the Macros don't work. So we have to invite existing or potential clients as guests which isn't always ideal.

So it would be great to have this working, or even better, if Tables in Confluence could do some basic spreadsheet calculation functions natively would be great.

[Nikhil Kundra]

In case helpful to anyone here troubleshooting, as Nidhi Raj mentioned above in response to Tomislav Tobijas's question here:

• ❌  Confluence Blog Posts can NOT be made publicly-sharable via "Public Link"
  
  
• ✅  Only Confluence Pages can be made publicly-sharable via "Public Link"

[Daniel Rykheer]

I've been looking forward to this so much. As a free user, I have decided to upgrade to the standard plan just to have this available.

I'm however concerned that because I now pay, I'll now be charged for the few other extension apps that I occasionally also use on my pages. I'd hate to have to pay for those now, just for the sake of having this feature. I know that the Atlassian user model works in a way that has you  charged per user for all applications, regardless of those users ever utilizing an app or not.

I use confluence as a knowledge base and 2nd brain, which does does not make money for me and amid every other service out there that wants to charge monthly subscriptions for things only occasionally used, it is pretty tough on the single individual.

[Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps]

@Daniel Rykheer most apps are free for up to ten users. If they are not then you would already be paying. It is not related to having a free versus paid Atlassian account.

[Daniel Rykheer]

Thanks @Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps 
( Re: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Introducing-public-links-for-Confluence-External-sharing-made/bc-p/2773556#M12394 )


Having worked on previous large enterprise projecs where the company switched over to Confluence and Jira after a short trial, the team discovered how that when you do in fact start paying for whatever  reason (moving onto a paid plan, regardless of the number of users - even less than 10 users).... that you then have to pay the per-user amount for that plan fore every user.

Although in my private capacity where we are only 3 users and have been using it under a free plan, I have moved onto the Standard plan in order to have the publishing feature. We still are only 3 users. While I'm still under the first 14 days of trial period for the standard plan, it should be interesting to see if I am charged the $5 for all 3 users and then because of that (voluntarily having moved off the free plan, in otherwords ) if I am asked to pay for those handful of apps that are only free for up to 10 users.

Appreciate your response on my comment. Let's see how this goes. I look forward to update on payments not going further up due to other products still being used by 3 people. 

Cheers ;-)

[Michal Čudrnák]

@Nidhi Rajwhen is this going to be introduced into Data Center?

[Tiffany Chung]

Hi @Michal Cudrnak , public links have no plans at the moment to be introduced to Confluence Data Center.

[Michal Čudrnák]

Hi @Tiffany Chung is there a particular reason behind that? Thank you