Identifying pages with Public Links enabled in Confluence Cloud.

Summary

When "Public links" are enabled at a site level, it allows users with edit rights to enable the function for pages, meaning that anyone with access to the page can share a read-only version of the page with anyone around the world.

As an administrator, being able to identify which pages have this function enabled definitely helps so it can be disabled if the page should no longer be shared externally or if there is sensitive information that should not have been shared. For such a report including all pages shared externally, the following suggestion has been created:

• Audit pages that are actively shared with Public Links

Solution

While the feature is not implemented, a workaround could be to use the Audit logs of Confluence to find which pages had the setting enabled:

1. As an administrator of Confluence tap the gear icon at the top right (https://YOURSITE.atlassian.net.wiki/admin)

2. Tap the Audit logs option on the sidebar (https://YOURSITE.atlassian.net/wiki/admin/auditlogging.action)

3. While navigating through the audit logs, add the Public Links keywords into the search.

4. The entries will display the Public Links page settings enabled change. There, take note of the Item affected. This is the ID of the page.

5. Add this ID into a generic URL that should resolve to the Page information part, including links to it and the page link at the breadcrumbs on the top:

   1 https://yoursite.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewinfo.action?pageId=<ID>