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Bug
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Low
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None
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3.2, 3.4.6, 5.6.4
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Anonymous access is enabled
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12
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Severity 3 - Minor
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2
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NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report.
Steps to reproduce
- Go to http://confluence.atlassian.com/dashboard.action
- Go to Feed Builder
- Whether you are logged in or accessing as anonymous, the following menu is no more available:
- In Confluence 3.1 or lower, if you are logged in, the following option appears:
- If you select 'Anonymous' or you are accessing as anonymous, you should get an anonymous feed generated:
- In Confluence 3.1 or lower, if you are logged in, the following option appears:
Finding
This was working fine in Confluence 3.1 or lower
Workaround
- Remove &os_authType=basic from the generated feed URL
or - Modify configurerssfeed.vm which is located at <confluence-install>/confluence/dashboard by appending the following code:
#if ($action.hasAnonymousAccess() && !$action.isAnonymousUser()) <div style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;"> <div class="substeptitle" style="background: #f0f0f0;"> $action.getText("label.access") </div> <div class="searchItem"> #tag( "Radio" "name='publicFeed'" "value=selectedPublicFeed" "list=accessTypes" "listKey=value" "listValue=key" "theme='notable'" "template='radiolist.vm'") </div> </div> #else #if ($action.isAnonymousUser()) <input type="hidden" name="publicFeed" value="true"> #else <input type="hidden" name="publicFeed" value="false"> #end #end
just before #bodytag( "Submit" "theme='aui'")
- relates to
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- Gathering Impact
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CONFSERVER-11449 RSS feed builder documentation does not cover feed authentication
- Closed
[CONFSERVER-21601] Generating anonymous feed through Feed Builder is not possible anymore
If feeds for anonymous users are allowed and this fairly simple workaround is available why not implement it right away.
Oscar Garza
added a comment - +1
any updates on prioritization? All my roads for finding out how to publish news in confluence leads me to a bug here in your Atlassian Jira. Insert blog post macro on the welcome message dashboard is bugged and doesn't work, my other best bet was this RSS feed. And it's also bugged since it doesnt work with anonymous, which makes it impossible to import in a RSS feed from an internal confluence blog, on the Default welcome message. Please fix this or Confluence can not be used as an intranet as you describe.
Martin Hanke
added a comment - Any updates on this issue? We actually wanted to use the Confluence Blog to inform our customers (also those that don't have a Confluence user). Unfortunately we have to use another tool for that, in case this cannot be done with Confluence.
I hope you can implement this tiny tiny feature.
Martin Hanke
added a comment - Any updates on this issue? We actually wanted to use the Confluence Blog to inform our customers (also those that don't have a Confluence user). Unfortunately we have to use another tool for that, in case this cannot be done with Confluence.
I hope you can implement this tiny tiny feature. This is still an issue in 4.3-RC1.
And although re-adding the publicFeed radio buttons to the form allows anonymous users to generate public RSS feeds, anything else (like RefinedWiki) that links to /dashboard/doconfigurerssfeed.action defaults to private RSS feeds. Which essentially makes the feed builder utterly useless for your average anonymous user...
I have verified this behaviour on CAC (Confluence 3.4.6) and in my local version of Confluence 3.5m4. I have added this information to the documentation, as a note:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+the+RSS+Feed+Builder
If we decide to reinstate the option on the feed builder screen, we will need to update the documentation again. When/if that happens, please would you raise an issue in the "documentation" component of this JIRA project, to let the tech writers know of the changed required.
Any news on this one? We are running Confluence 6.13.9 Server.
How many affected customers does it take for Atlassian to act?