Ability to Inherit Edit Permissions in Confluence

[Alexandra Astor]

Looking for Add On suggestions that will allow edit permissions to be inherited to subpages in Confluence Cloud.  We tried Edit Permission Inheritance by Purde Software, however, once the edit permissions are inherited it is not possible to turn them off.

[Andy Gladstone]

@Alexandra Astor I am not quite sure what you are looking to accomplish here. Sub-pages inherit parent page permissions. If a user has edit permissions on a parent page, and a child page is created, they should have edit permissions on that page by default. 

What is the problem you are trying to solve?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Actually, the edit restrictions do not cascade down, only view restrictions.

Atlassian dabbled briefly with it a few years ago and found it was a horrible thing to do to most of their customers, because, as mentioned, you then can't let people in to edit pages that are inheriting it.

[Andy Gladstone]

OK, I stand corrected and @Alexandra Astor you should listen to @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's one of those you won't ever see unless you happen to stumble on exactly the right docs or course material, or it bites one of your people and you get asked to sort out the mess!

I got very confused when they (briefly) changed it - nothing worked in protected spaces suddenly, took us ages to get through the upgrade testing, until it went back.

Inheriting edit restrictions does not make a lot of sense, it's incredibly limiting.

However, setting them down through a tree can be useful.  Not inheriting, the way view restrictions do it automatically, but a one-off "parse the tree, set edit restriction on all pages automatically".  This would leave people with the flexibility to change the restrictions later.

 Obviously, I'd do this with Scriptrunner on Server, but I'm not sure it could be done on Cloud, I'll add to my learning list.  There may be other apps that can do it.  Maybe even Automation for Confluence?