Share content externally with private links

[Marko Šidlovský]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a way to share Confluence content externally using private links. Specifically, I have two questions:

1. How can I share content externally while keeping it secure?
   Is there a built-in method in Confluence to create a unique, private link for a page or space that can be shared with external users without exposing the content publicly? Based on link I see only option to share link with public

2. Are there any recommended add-ons or plugins?
   If Confluence doesn't support this functionality natively, has anyone used an add-on that provides secure, temporary or controlled external access? I’d appreciate hearing about any experiences or recommendations.

Any insights, tips, or best practices would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help.

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/share-content-externally-with-public-links/

[Yulia Lenina _AppFox_]

We at AppFox use Scroll Viewport too for our public-facing product documentation. Paired with our Workflows for Confluence, which helps separate drafts from ready and approved documents and set up approval process and cross-publish it automatically to a space available for a wide audience, it works amazing.

[Kristian Klima]

Ahoj @Marko Šidlovský and welcome to the Community

With private links, you can share individual pages. You can share every page of your space  as a private link but you're lose relationship among individual pages (page A will no longer link to page B as it does within Confluence).

With anonymous access to the entire space, you'll share the content as is - everything will work.

However, both above methods result in two things:

• ANYONE on the the internet will be able to see the content.
• Every single change you publish (save a page) will be immediately made public.

The solution is to create a dedicated website (documentation portal) that will do the following:

• Use your Confluence content
• Keep your Confluence spaces private (no public links, no anonymous access)
• Keep your new documentation portal available ONLY to people you want - without Confluence seats.

At the moment, you have two apps available as options - Scroll Viewport by K15t and Instant Websites by Glintech.

I'm using Scroll Viewport for our doc center because it can be combined with other Scroll apps to use versioning, localizations, conditional content etc. 

This is our public site created in Viewport - https://docs.emplifi.io/platform/latest/home/ 

The site has also its internal-only pendant which is behind our SSO. This way, it's accessible to anyone who's within our SSO environment even if they don't have a Confluence seat.

I'm based in Prague so you have more options to get in touch :) 

Here's my article on the subject.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/How-to-build-a-product-documentation-solution-in-30-minutes/ba-p/2875027