Sharing child pages within the public link for parent page

[Vitalina Hlukhenka]

Hi there!

Thank you for the new feature of sharing the public links. Could you please add the functionality (maybe a checkmark) that allows to include showing child pages within a parent external link? This would be extremely helpful as I frequently need to share the docs with partners and these docs include many child pages. It's inconvenient to make a separate link for every child page. I am aware of security reasons, however, is it possible to make it configurable, so I can decide if I need to share the child pages too?

Looking forward to your reply

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Vitalina Hlukhenka 

You can either make your space public or need an app for that.

I guess that you don't want to make your space public because otherwise you wouldn't be sharing public links.

As far as I know, there are only two apps that built a public site that is independent of Confluence space permissions.

- Scroll Viewport by K15t - which we use. You can use Scroll Documents and Variants to be more granular and determine specifically which pages you want to share and which you don't want to share - including specific Parent and child pages.

- Instant Websites GLiNTECH - no experience with this.

[Vitalina Hlukhenka]

Thanks for the advice, Kristian.  These apps look good, however, they are paid ones :) Would be good to have that functionality without any addons. But thank you anyway

[Kristian Klima]

@Vitalina Hlukhenka There's also Spacecraft for Confluence which is a free app but relies on the source space being available for anonymous access.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Vitalina Hlukhenka Since you are sharing your pages with partners, you may not want to use public links—public links make your content show up to the general public in internet searches, with anyone being able to click the link and see your page.

It seems that you may want to provide guest access to sections of your page tree and add the appropriate guests to the appropriate parent pages (permissions are inherited by the child pages). You might start with this page to learn about this feature: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/invite-guests-for-external-collaboration/ 

[Vitalina Hlukhenka]

Thank you for the feedback. I'm aware of the Guest access and use it in some spaces. However, it has a limitation that I can't invite the same people as guests to several spaces.

As for the public links, Atlassian docs say they did everything so that those public links didn't appear in the internet searches. Is it so, or do you have the opposite information?

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Vitalina Hlukhenka After re-reading this page https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/how-secure-are-public-links/ , I see that you are correct. I'm not sure where I got the wrong idea from. 😳

You have probably already reviewed the What is hidden from visitors to public pages? section on that page. 

Within my company, to make content available to people who only need to view it, we will be using Scroll Viewport, which @Kristian Klima mentioned.