Date conditional access for guest users

[Hendri Lankamp]

Hi,

Currently we are manually adding guest users to confluence when a project starts and removing them when project is complete. It would be beneficial if we could use a start and end date for guest users. This minimizes the risk of forgetting to remove the user.

Is this an something that can be configured?


Kind regards,
Hendri

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

I am not aware of a way to achieve this directly from Confluence.  There may be a marketplace app that could help or you would have to script something via the API.

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Hendri Lankamp and welcome.

I can see a SAML SSO based solution - this would work if your access to the Atlassian Org is SAML SSO controlled.

Essentially, you first provision your guests to your SSO environment and set up the access  package - this would be restricted to Atlassian products and have the 'best before' date :) 

Then you would invite them as guests. After the best before date, they would lose their access rights as per your SSO settings.

[Hendri Lankamp]

Hi Kristian,

Thanks for the quick reply.
Since our guest users only need access towards Confluence/Jira and have no need for other domain functionality's, this would not be a preferable solution. Also the responsibility for user/guest management will shift from our business team towards our IT team.

But again, thanks for looking for a possible solution.

Is the "conditional" start/end date functionality something that we could expect in the future? Our maybe only for guest access?


Kind regards,
Hendri Lankamp

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Hendri Lankamp 

I admit, my solution is using the right arm to scratch behind the left ear :) 

But may you can turn it around, rather than expiring guests permissions... you can expire the content restrictions. I wonder if there's an app in the Marketplace, that would lift or expose restrictions on pages at a certain date....

As a user with no Atlassian affiliation (billing aside :) ) I am not privy to their plans.