View access for non-licensed users in Confluence

[Colleen Gotling]

Is it possible to give users access to a page or space in Confluence without having to have a license for those users?

[Manoj Gangwar · Accepted solution]

Hi @Colleen Gotling ,

You can grant the permission to the Anonymous users. Please refer to the below link.

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/set-up-public-access/

[Colleen Gotling]

Is there a limit to the number of Anonymous (non paid licenses) we can have?

[Manoj Gangwar]

When you make your content available to anonymous users, this means anyone on the internet. The anonymous access feature can’t accommodate sharing with some anonymous people and not others. It’s all or nothing.

If the page can be edited by anonymous users, there can be max 12 people who can edit at a time irrespective of whether they are licensed users or not.

[Colleen Gotling]

Thank you, I was not aware that it was all or nothing.  Is there anything I can do to allow internal employees to access but not anyone external?

[Manoj Gangwar]

Unfortunately, in my understanding without license, this is not possible.

[Trudy Claspill]

@Colleen Gotling 

If you use a Premium subscription plan you can constrain the Anonymous Access to allowed IPs/CIDRs with the IP AllowList feature.

https://support.atlassian.com/security-and-access-policies/docs/specify-ip-addresses-for-product-access/

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Colleen Gotling 

You can invite a user as a Guest and grant them access to one and only one Confluence Space at a time. Guests do not consume a license. For more information refer to

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Roll-out-the-welcome-mat-guests-are-available-in-Confluence/ba-p/2171854