Hide comments for anonymous users

[Almar Hollaar]

Is it possible to hide the comments on a page for anonymous users and/or other groups in Confluence? Or only show comments to certain groups?

[Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_]

Hi Almar,

in order to hide comments for the anonymous users you can add the following javascript to your announcement banner in JIRA

<script>
jQuery().ready(function() {
if(jQuery(".login-link").size()>0){
 jQuery("#comment-tabpanel").hide();

}
});
</script>

[Pieterjan Vanpee]

Hello Fabio,

will this hide all comments for all projects for anonymous users? How would it be possible to hide comments for some particular projects?

Thanks for your help!

[Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_]

Hello,

yes, it will hide comments for all projects. In order to hide comments just for specific projects you shoud add a check based on the URL (it contains project key).

<script>
jQuery().ready(function() {
var url = window.location.href;
if(jQuery(".login-link").size()>0 && url.includes("YOUR_PROJECT_KEY_HERE")){
 jQuery("#comment-tabpanel").hide(); 
}
});
</script>

Hope it helps,

Fabio

[Ivan Dimitrijevic]

Hi,

Unfortunately this does not stop users on a mobile web browser to see comments :(

Any workaround?

[YouriDS]

Talk addon provides permissions for public spaces:

https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/Talk/Managing+Permissions#ManagingPermissions-4

You could have private comments for your team.

[Peter Van de Voorde]

Almar,

You can set security on comments : https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Commenting+on+an+Issue

In the Add comment part you can read how to set security on a comment.

Best regards,

Peter

[Almar Hollaar]

Yes in JIRA, but not in Confluence

[Peter Van de Voorde]

Oops, my mistake, I'll delete this answer.

[Christian Koch]

Adding comments is a permission but every page viewer is allowed to view the comments, too. You have two possibilties. Change the velocity code in your theme or develop a plugin.

[Almar Hollaar]

I was afraid of that :-(