How do I hide "All Updates" from Confluence dashboard for Anonymous users.

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Summary

Currently, there is no configuration to hide the All updates dashboard view in Confluence.

This article assists you with the workaround to hide all-updates dashboard contents for anonymous users.

Workaround 

To achieve that, insert the following script to  Administrator  General Configuration Look And Feel > Custom HTML in the "At end of the HEAD" session

<script type="text/javascript">
AJS.toInit(function(){
if (AJS.params.remoteUser == ''){
AJS.$('section.aui-page-panel-content.content-body').hide();
}
});
</script>

After that, All-updates content will not be visible to anonymous users. However, if users login in they can see the contents as usual:


Also, you can refer to the following article to hide its link from the sidebar.   

Related guide:


Last modified on Feb 23, 2023

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