Can guests be restricted to view specific pages

[Avigail Manheim]

A guest is someone from outside of the organization who is granted access to a single space. 

Is it possible to restrict which pages in that space he can view or edit? 

If there are multiple guests in the space, can they each be restricted to different sets of pages?

[Kristian Klima · Accepted solution]

Hello @Avigail Manheim 

Guests have a set of default permissions defined in the confluence-guests user group and you can tweak them per individual user.

And yes, View means the entire site so you'd have to apply restrictions to individual pages. So yes, removing View means that the user can't see the space.

What you CAN do is to apply restrictions to individual pages in such a way that would exclude the entire confluence-guests user group. You can try creating a more specific user group with specific guests for that purpose.

Also, there might be space management apps in the Marketplace that would allow you to apply restrictions en masse. Unless I'm very much mistaken, I think the upcoming Panorama app by Kolekti/Adaptavist has that feature in the pipeline.

[Avigail Manheim]

Hi Kristian,

Looking at the list of groups, confluence-guests is not on the list of the space permissions.

The group exists in the directory. It's just not used in the space permissions. Which makes sense as each guest can only be a member of a single space, and different guests are members of different spaces. 

If the confluence-guests group was used in the space permissions, all of the guests would need to be guests of that same space. 

[Kristian Klima]

@Avigail Manheim 

That is true - it's page-level restrictions that are at play here:

So you can play with the guest group on the page level. 

[Avigail Manheim]

Interesting. So, I can either choose a specific guest or I can restrict all guests in the space. That's really good to know. 

I notice that on the bottom of the set restrictions scheme it says says "# guests can access". Is that just a general statement to remind me that there are guests within the space? I'm hoping it doesn't mean that they can access the page after I've restricted it, but since I'm on Standard, I don't have the 'inspect permissions' feature to confirm. 

 

[Kristian Klima]

It's just an indication about how many guests you have.

It's the same number you have in the top left corner of the space in the normal view.

If you restrict access to specific guests, this will probably change but I can't test that now :) 

[Avigail Manheim]

Terrific. Thanks for the confirmation.

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

Hi @Avigail Manheim 

Yes then can be restricted. But you have to manually setup  the permissions.

All guests will have the same rights on the pages, if not mistaken.

[Avigail Manheim]

Hi Alex,
When I look at the space permissions, each guest user is listed separately. 
Does 'view' mean that they are allowed to view the entire site, and I need to go through each parent page in the tree to restrict them not to see it? 
When I tried removing the 'view' permission it removed the user from the space.