How can I display specific content on a page for only some users/groups?

[Xavier Amador]

How can I display specific content on a page for only some users/groups to see, but not all? Ideally, I'd like to show some information about a topic on any given page to all users/groups, but make more information available to specific users/groups.

[Thomas Schlegel · Accepted solution]

I got another plugin for you: multiexcerpt (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/biz.artemissoftware.confluence.multiexcerpt.MultiExcerptMacro/cloud/overview)

It is working similar as the excerpt macro, except you can put more than one excerpt on a page and the excerpt include macro is not showing the error message, if the user is not allowed to view the included excerpt. It simply shows nothing. I think, that's what you are looking for. But it is not for free.

[Henry Auffahrt]

Hi @Thomas Schlegel thanks a lot for this answer! This is exactly what I'm looking for. Sadly, it is not working for us. As you can see in my screenshot, I got error messages like these? (I tried first the original Excerpt Macro, and then the three implementation of Multiexcerpt) 
Did I miss something? Do you have any advice how to solve this problem?

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi @Henry Auffahrt ,

I have just tried this again with Confluence 7.13 and Multiexcerpt 5.6.0 - it works as expected. 

This is the page when a user has permission on the source space:

And this is the view if the user doesn't have the permission:

 

Maybe there's a difference between on premise and cloud?

[Henry Auffahrt]

Hi @Thomas Schlegel

I wrote the support from the plugin vendor. It is a difference between on premise and cloud. This feature is missing in the cloud instances... really annoying... 

[Steffi Frank]

Page A = page visible for everybody

Page B = page visible only for some users

On page B:  Use the excerpt macro around your text. Set your restrictions on this page.

On page A: Use the include excerpt macro

[Thomas Schlegel]

With that, user who are not allowed to see the excerpt get an error message: Error rendering macro 'excerpt-include' : User 'xxx' does not have permission to view the page 'xxx'.

If you were on a self-hosted instance you could use the visibility plugin. But it is not available for Confluence Cloud.

[Xavier Amador]

Thanks for the quick response! Any way to make it so that Page A does not show the message below when a user is not authorized to view it?:

Error rendering macro 'excerpt-include' : User 'XXXXX' does not have permission to view the page 'Full Article'.

[Thomas Schlegel]

not on Cloud, as far as I know... 

[Xavier Amador]

Do you know if it is possible to make a blog post available to only some groups/users and not all groups/users in the space?

[Thomas Schlegel]

yes, you can restrict a blog post to users or groups as any regular page.

[Xavier Amador]

That's great! Will it show up at all to those in the blog roll? As in, will they see the article even though they can't read it?

[Thomas Schlegel]

The blog post is not visible for those, who cant' read it. They don't have it in their blog roll.

You can try it. Create a blog post and restrict it to you. Your colleague should not see it at all.

[Xavier Amador]

Thanks so much for your help!

[Thomas Schlegel]

You're welcome