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Bulk edit page permissions with automation

Langer Lukas August 25, 2025

I would like to create an automation, that changes the page permissions of all child pages of a certain page branch.

I already tried this, but its not working, as the child pages cannot be found or no actions are performed. When looking up the audit log, i cannot find any id of any child page.

Automations also say "This Branch contains all 249 elements" but i know, that there are more than 1.500 pages and elemts?

What am I missing? Is there a possibility to bulk change permissions of a page and all the pages in that branch? A possibility that is not script runner or some other thrid party app, as we have very strict rules concerning new apps.

 

Thank you!

 

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Maja Vallin
Contributor
August 25, 2025

Hi there,

I tried an automation that looked like this and it worked for changing the restrictions to the parent page. 

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Hope this helps you some

 

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Steffen Burzlaff _K15t_
Community Champion
August 25, 2025

Hey @Langer Lukas

you're currently looking for pages which have a parent of xxx. Do all 1500 pages have this parent or are there pages in your tree which life further down the tree?

If so, you might want to use "ancestor" instead of "parent"?

Ancestor:
Search for all pages that are descendants of a given ancestor page. This includes direct child pages and their descendents. It is more general than the parent field.

Parent:
Search for child content of a particular parent page.


Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Steffen

Langer Lukas August 25, 2025

Hey @Steffen Burzlaff _K15t_ !

Thank you - this is exactly the thing I was looking for! I will give it a try!

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