Hide restricted icons from sidebar in "new look" Confluence

[Susan Ostreicher]

Hello, 

Apologies if this has already been answered somewhere. 

In the new look Confluence, there are some icons in the sidebar for restricted functions.  For example, in our space: 

- No one has permission to add a blog post, including administrators.  But the blog icon is visible for all users.  When a user clicks on it, they see the "GOT SOMETHING TO SHARE?" page, but there's no action they can take.  

- Only administrators have permission to view the Analytics for Confluence Cloud plugin.  But this icon is visible for everyone.  When a user clicks on it, it goes to a blank page.

If I remember correctly, we could hide these icons in the old Confluence experience, to avoid frustrating our users who can't use them.  Is that not possible in the new look?

[Shannon S]

Hi Susan!

1. In order to report this to the development team, can you test a few things for me:
2. When you click the button to create the blog post, what happens? Does it actually allow the user to create a post?
3. Can you test with a non-admin user and let me know the same? I assume your user is an admin so I'd like to check both.

The issue with the Analytics is an add-on problem, and we'll need the provider of that add-on to help look into that issue. I've tagged their name on this question.

Thank you for your help!

Kind Regards,
Shannon