Public Spaces and Hiding Comments

[Katie Pickrell]

Hello - I have a public knowledge base space but would like to be able to leave comments on the page that only my internal team can see (for things like suggestion edits and such.) Is there a way to hide comments from being viewed by anonymous users?

[Suvradip Paul · Accepted solution]

Hi @Katie Pickrell ,

Thanks for posting.

I presume the one you are referring is similar to this open issue - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-24939. Could you please check and vote and watch this?

Cheers

Suvradip

[Katie Pickrell]

Yes that is what i'm looking for. Will vote and watch. Thank you!

[Suvradip Paul]

You're welcome @Katie Pickrell !

[Jacob Brunson]

Hi @Katie Pickrell

There is no way to restrict comment viewing, but I wanted to leave a suggestion for a way to achieve a similar result.

You could create a separate page which is restricted to your team. In this page you could insert the Include Page macro, and select the public version of this page.

This would allow your team to comment on the private version of the page, while leaving the public version untouched. Unfortunately this does require an additional page, and inline comments wouldn't work since it's using a macro.

Hope this helps!

Best,
Jacob

[Irina_Bel_Stiltsoft_]

Hi @Katie Pickrell ,

It seems like our app has a feature to partly work around your trouble. Talk - Advanced Inline Comments has a feature that allows setting visibility restrictions for the comments on a space level or/and for the specific comment thread. Say, you want your comments to be visible only internally. You can set space permissions for the comments only for a group or/and users who can view them. However, any user who can make comments can change restrictions for specific comment threads.

For example, you want to restrict viewing for the following groups and users as in the picture. A user with Confluence admin right needs to go to the Space tools - Permissions - Talk permissions and add them:

This means, that by default all the comments in the space will be visible only to the groups and users listed. But if a user wants to change viewing for a specific comment (for example, to discuss something privately), they can do it like this: