SubSpace Navigation for Anonymous and Guest Users

Guest users and Anonymous users who access a Confluence space will not have access to the SubSpace Navigation app by default.

  • What are Guest users?

Learn more about guest access here: Invite guests for external collaboration | Confluence Cloud | Atlassian Support. For Guest users, space access needs to be manually assigned.

When a Guest user accesses a Confluence space, they will not see SubSpace Navigation Menu.

  • What are Anonymous users?

Anonymous users are external users who can use a Confluence instance without having to log in.

When an Anonymous user accesses a Confluence space, they will see a version of the SubSpace Navigation Menu with the message: "There is no navigation defined yet." (see Image 1).

 

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Image 1 - SubSpace Navigation message for Guest or Anonymous users

Making the SubSpace Navigation Menu visible for Guest and Anonymous users

It is possible to display the Menu for Guest and Anonymous users.

First, you need to grant access to the anonymous users globally (see Image 2).

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Image 2 - Enable Anonymous view globally

Second, you need to grant Anonymous access to the space named “Communardo Products” where the data for the Navigation Configuration is stored (see Image 3).

This would allow anonymous users to see the SubSpace Navigation Menu.

For the guest users, you need additionally to assign globally a specific space for them to access (see Image 4) and enable anonymous access to the spaces that your guest user should be able to access (see Image 3).

Now, you can select in SubSpace Navigation Menu Configuration page which Menu(s) should be accessible to the guest users (see Image 5).

Please note the following:

Some elements may still not be visible to Anonymous and Guest users if their content is not cleared for Anonymous access.