How to hide the Space Tools menu for certain users or groups in Confluence
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Summary
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The Space Tools menu allows Space Administrator to manage their Spaces. If you need to disable the Space Tools menu for certain users you may do so by using JavaScript.
Solution
How to hide Space Tools menu for Anonymous users
Navigate to Confluence Administration page >> Custom HTML.
Click Edit.
Add the following to At the end of the HEAD section and click Save:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7<script> AJS.toInit(function(){ if (AJS.params.remoteUser == ''){ AJS.$("#space-tools-menu-trigger").hide(); } }); </script>
How to hide Space Tools menu for users that are not members of confluence-admin group
Site-wide changes
Navigate to Confluence Administration page >> Layout.
Under the Site Layouts, search for Main Layout and click Edit/Create Custom.
Find the following section:
<head>and</head>tags.Copy and paste the following code before the
</head>tag.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8#if ($userAccessor.hasMembership('confluence-administrators', $helper.action.remoteUser.name)) #else <script type="text/javascript"> AJS.toInit(function(){ AJS.$('#space-tools-menu-trigger').hide(); }); </script> #end
Space-wide changes
Navigate to the specific Space you want to apply this changes to.
Go to Space Tools >> Look and Feel panel and click Layout.
Under the Site Layouts, search for Main Layout and click Edit/Create Custom.
Find the following section:
<head>and</head>tags.Copy and paste the following code before the
</head>tag.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8#if ($userAccessor.hasMembership('confluence-administrators', $helper.action.remoteUser.name)) #else <script type="text/javascript"> AJS.toInit(function(){ AJS.$('#space-tools-menu-trigger').hide(); }); </script> #endSave the changes.
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