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Is there true inheritance of permissions?

hfchen
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April 1, 2025

In Confluence Cloud, if you set a Parent to restricted and add Person A as Can Edit and Person B as Can View. And then have the child content set to Restricted by Parents -> Can Edit, Person B can edit the child content.

Is there a way to have true inheritance of parent permissions or do I just have to set Person A as Can Edit and Person B as Can View all the way down the tree?

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Mikael Sandberg
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April 1, 2025

Hi @hfchen,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

The short answer is no. Currently it is only view restrictions that are inherited down, edit restrictions has be set on each page. 

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Alan King _PSP Cyber_
January 21, 2026

I found this this limitation from a different perspective as all my child page default to be able to edit rather than view only. 

I can understand there may be rationale for not inheriting edit permissions to avoid over provisioning, but not sure that holds up for when it is granting access you are trying to restrict.

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