excerpt include macro not rendering content when user doesn't have permission to space

[Jeffrey Allen]

I have the following use case, which I can't seem to get the excerpt include macro to support.  Does anyone know how I can support this use case?

USE CASE:

I have two confluence spaces A and B.  I want to make some of the pages in space A available and included in space B.  To do this, I have used an excerpt macro on the content in space A and an excerpt include macro on space B to pull in that content. This works great, now here's the problem....

I have two users X and Y.  User X is an "admin" user and as such can view content in both spaces A and B (this works fine).  For user Y, I want them to see all of the content in space B (including the content I'm trying to pull in from space A using the excerpt include macro), but user Y can NOT have access to space A. 

The problem I'm running into is that because user Y does not have permission to view space A, the content I am attempting to pull into space B with the excerpt include macro does not render and instead displays an error "Error rendering macro 'excerpt-include' : User 'Y' does not have permission to view the page 'spaceA:pagename'."

Does anyone know how I could accomplish the above use case?  Your help is very much appreciated. 

[Davin Studer · Accepted solution]

There are a couple ways to do this. Ideally you go from least restrictive to the most restrictive. Which would mean that you have the content in in space B and include it to space A. Or you could use the Perimiter add-on.

[Davin Studer]

You could also have the content in a third space that everyone has access to and include it into both A and B.

[Jeffrey Allen]

Thanks @Davin Studer, this was super helpful!  Is there a way to do this without having the source content in space B?  The reason we want it in space A is because space A is our central repository for all of this documentation, some of which is appropriate for people who have access to space B and some of which is not.  From a content creation / maintenance perspective, it is easier for us to maintain all of the source content in one space (space A).

[Davin Studer]

Did you check out the Perimiter add-on that I mentioned? I'm pretty sure tha add-on can get around the permissions issue.

[Jeffrey Allen]

@Davin Studer - thanks so much, Perimeter seems to have worked! there's still an issue with images coming in. I think I will start a new post for that. Thanks again!

[Jeffrey Allen]

@Davin Studer https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/10402645/perimeter-plugin-not-displaying-images-from-source-page

[Aaron Huber]

Jeffrey,

Did you ever find a solution to your problem?  We have the exact same scenario and have tried Perimeter, but it will not render images. 

Thanks,

Aaron