How to Share Confluence Pages & Spaces
Before you begin, ensure that the External Share for Confluence is installed from the Atlassian Marketplace.
Overview
You can share single or multiple Confluence pages, including blog posts, or an entire Confluence space. (Please note that while the app displays folders nested within your shared pages, you cannot directly share folders on their own.) When sharing a space, you can choose to include all parent and child pages within it.
How to Share Confluence Pages Externally
Navigate to the Confluence page you want to share.
Click External Share icon in the top-right corner to open the link management menu.
Click the Create External Share Link button to generate a new unique URL.
Configure your link. A configuration window will appear where you can:
Set a custom Link Name.
Define Viewer Permissions (e.g., allow add comments or attachments).
Set Security Options (e.g., passwords or expiration dates).
Customize link settings
Preview how the page will look to external users.
Track Activity for that specific link.
How to Share an Entire Space
Navigate to the Confluence space you want to share.
Click the External Share icon in the top-right corner.
Click Create External Share Link.
In the configuration window, enable Share Child Pages to include all pages within the space.
Uploading attachments on externally shared pages
When "Add attachments" permission is granted to the share link, external user can add files directly to the Attachments section in two easy ways:
Drag and Drop: Simply drag files from your computer and drop them anywhere on the Attachments component.
Upload Icon: Click the
+icon in the header to select files from your computer.
If you forget to add an option to a link, want to change the password or update the expiration date just go back and edit the link. You don't need to create a new link, the existing link can be edited and updated as many times as you need!
How to Send an External Share Link via Email
You can send the share link directly to collaborators by clicking the Email icon at the top right of the configuration window.
Customize the format of your email, decide if you want to share the password and add a friendly message.
Send via email
Here's an example of the email that external users will receive.
Once the external viewer opens the link, it will look like below image. The shared page displays text, tables, images, most of the built in Confluence macros and sizable number of remaining macros.
Result - How shared page / Space looks
Shared Confluence Page
Shared Confluence Space
Important Note on Sharing Confluence Folders
Please note that there is no possibility to directly share Confluence folders using the app.
Please note that there is no possibility to directly share Confluence folders using the app.
However, our app fully allows displaying the contents of folders that already exist within your shared page or space structure, making them visible to external viewers.
How Attachment Downloads Work
When an external user clicks to download an attachment, they are redirected directly to the Atlassian download URL instead of going through the External Share backend.
What this means for you:
The Atlassian download URL will be visible in the browser when downloading a file.
Download links are valid for 24 hours. After this period, the link will expire. Note that this validity period is determined by Atlassian and may change in the future.
Changing share settings does not immediately invalidate existing download links. For example, if you add a password to a share after someone has already accessed an attachment link, that link will remain accessible until the 24-hour Atlassian URL expires.