Confluence restrictions not working as expected.

[Barth Weishoff]

Hello.

So I have a situation where a user created a page, enabled restrictions on the page to "Editing restricted", added 3 users as "can edit", but said users do not have the edit option when observing the page.      Is there some special little switch that needs to be set when using page restrictions?

[Jonathan Smith · Accepted solution]

@Barth Weishoff,

  Confirm "pages - add" is checked in the space permissions. Those users need editing ability in the space before you can edit any page.

[Jonathan Smith]

Pages - add also means pages - editing.

[Barth Weishoff]

Hi @Jonathan Smith

Thank you for the reply; wouldn't this course of action open up the whole space for the added user to modify by default?

Thanks

-B 

[Jonathan Smith]

Hi @Barth Weishoff

Yes. After opening up the space to this user(s), you would need to add the necessary parent / children page restrictions so they don't see or edit sensitive information.

Another option is to move the desired page(s) into a space with less restrictions.

- Jon