How I set a different footer message for anonymous with javascript and HTML macro

[Dennis Veenstra]

For our confluence enviroment we needed to let anonymous users know that they needed to log in to comment, but I didnt want that message once they were logged in. Somehow the HTML macro didnt work in markupstyle in the footer itself.

I solved this as followed: 

On a certain page with low traffic made a hidden excerpt. Here I used the HTML Macro with this code: 

<script>

    
    if (document.getElementById("login-link").id === "login-link")  {
    
    document.write("You are not logged in. Please do to leave a comment.");
    
    } 

</script>

Then used the wiki markup to include that excerpt in the footer. 

The idea is that if someone is logged in, there is no login-link :)

[Dave Bosman [Realdolmen]]

Hi @Dennis Veenstra

As always there are multiple options to solve this.

Here is 1 ;-) 

You can use this plugin to show or hide something in certain conditions. (yours will work)

In administration look for  "sidebar, header and footer" and add following text

{show-if:special=@authenticated}You are not logged in. Please do to leave a comment{show-if}

Regards

Dave