Hiding "Tools" menu for anonymous users

[Bruce Garlock]

We are using an older version of Confluence - 3.4.3, and I am using the "Intranet Theme". For anonymous users, we would like to hide the Tools menu. What is the simpilest way to accomplish this?

[Amalia · Accepted solution]

You can add JS to Confluence Admin > Custom HTML > At the end of the HEAD

AJS.toInit(function(){
    if (AJS.params.remoteUser == ''){
        AJS.$('#action-menu-link').hide();
    }
});

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Use+JavaScript+in+Confluence

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Hide+Elements+in+Confluence+Using+CSS+or+JavaScript

[Bruce Garlock]

Thank you so much for the links, and the JS code. I added the following to the end of the HEAD section, and it still shows the "Tools" menu to anonymous users:

<script type="text/javascript">
    AJS.toInit(function(){
        if (AJS.params.remoteUser == ''){
          AJS.$('#browse-menu-link').hide();
        }
    });
</script>

This is Confluence 3.4.3 - is it too old to work with this JS?

Is there another way to do this?

Many thanks,

Bruce

[Bruce Garlock]

Hi - I think I figured it out - 3.4.3 must not be passing the loggedIn user, because when I went to the console, and issued a

AJS.params

none of the vars had the logged in user. No big deal, because for this space, it's mostly view only by anonymous users, so I am just grabbing the 'spaceKey=XXX' and removing the menus that way.

Thanks again so much for heading me in the right direction! Very valuble information!

Many thanks,

Bruce

[Amalia]

great finding :) glad that it works now