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  1. Confluence Cloud
  2. CONFCLOUD-67252

User with only JIRA access in the instance, cannot access the Public Confluence Space

      Issue Summary

      User with only JIRA access in the instance, cannot access the Public Confluence Space.

      Environment

      Confluence Cloud

      Steps to Reproduce

      1. Let be a user A with just JIRA product access and not Confluence.
      2. User A will login into JIRA.
      3. Provide the URL of Public Confluence Space of the same instance to the user A.
      4. Without logging out of the Confluence, when User A accesses the Public Confluence Space, the user will not be able to access it.

      Expected Results

      User must be able to access the Public Space.

      Actual Results

      User is not able to access the Public Space.
      https://instancename.atlassian.net/login?application=confluence&dest-url<...publicspace...>&permission-violation=true

      Workaround

      Access Space in incognito mode or in another browser where the user is not logged in into his/her instance.

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            [CONFCLOUD-67252] User with only JIRA access in the instance, cannot access the Public Confluence Space

            Hi everyone,

            This is Sunny from the Confluence team. We would like to thank you for all the comments on the current need for Service Desk customers to access public Confluence pages. The current functionality has known design limitations, with workarounds: https://confluence.atlassian.com/servicedeskcloud/serving-customers-with-a-knowledge-base-732528995.html, https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/guide-to-link-knowledge-base-to-jira-service-desk-for-unlicensed-user-816677228.html. As a centralized source of truth, we encourage whose of you who are impacted by this functionality to follow along https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-30161 so that you can upvote and track our progress there.

            Best,

            Sunny

            Sunny Xu (Inactive) added a comment - Hi everyone, This is Sunny from the Confluence team. We would like to thank you for all the comments on the current need for Service Desk customers to access public Confluence pages. The current functionality has known design limitations, with workarounds: https://confluence.atlassian.com/servicedeskcloud/serving-customers-with-a-knowledge-base-732528995.html , https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/guide-to-link-knowledge-base-to-jira-service-desk-for-unlicensed-user-816677228.html . As a centralized source of truth, we encourage whose of you who are impacted by this functionality to follow along https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-30161 so that you can upvote and track our progress there. Best, Sunny

            Any updates on this? We have been waiting on a fix for this for nearly 6 months.. And it seems to be getting punted from one sprint to another. 

            Shankar Venkataraman added a comment - Any updates on this? We have been waiting on a fix for this for nearly 6 months.. And it seems to be getting punted from one sprint to another. 

            Hi okhomutov@atlassian.com,
            Thank you for the update!

            Shubham Khanna added a comment - Hi okhomutov@atlassian.com , Thank you for the update!

              okhomutov@atlassian.com Oleg Khomutov (Inactive)
              skhanna@atlassian.com Shubham Khanna
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