Can I exclude a person or group from viewing a page in Confluence?

[Tobias Vollmer]

All our pages are generally open for viewing to all logged in users. We have an external user who we would like to exclude on a space.

Can we add a restcrition like "all users bar XYZ" or restrict hte page otherwise?

[RianA]

Hi Snafu,

Good News! Yes we can exclude users or group to viewing certain page from Confluence. You can do this by restricting the view of certain page from Tools >> Restrictions. The users who can restrict certain page must have the permission from Space permission. For further reading regarding this, please refer to the following documentations.

* http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Restrictions

* http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Space+Permissions+Overview

Hope this information helps.

Best regards,
Josua

[Thomas Schlegel]

But I think, what Snafu wants, is not possible. You can restrict a page to a certain person or group, but you cannot restrict it to "everyone except xyz". That would only be possible, if you could create a group "everyone except xyz" and restrict the page to that group.

[RianA]

Ahh I see, sorry for the misunderstanding. For this, you need to create another group and include all user except xyz. And then assign the permission to that group. Cheers.

[Tobias Vollmer]

Hi Josua,

thanks for the tip. But can I add "all Users" to a group? We have more than 300 Users in Confluence and adding a "comma seperated list" and most importtanly maintaining this list (or more than one !) would be admin horror. :-(

[Topaz Gino]

I would appreciate an answer on this question as well if there's an expert who could help ?

[Khuong Vu]

Rian's suggestion on 3/28/12 works for me as follows:  

1. We have a group called library-include-all, which is maintained by Confluence; i.e. all new users with a valid campus login can log in, and the new users are automatically added to library-include-all.  Effectively, the library-include-all group contains faculty, staff, and student assistants working in the library.
2. We have another group called library-faculty-staff, which is maintained by a system admin; all new faculty and staff are added to library-faculty-staff.  Luckily, this group is not hard to maintain, because it is quite stable.
3. We have a page that we want to restrict viewing to our faculty and staff; i.e. we want to exclude the students.  So, I restrict the page to the group called library-faculty-staff.

Thank you Rian.