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Page Permissions Inheritance

Fabian Schmidt
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August 19, 2025

Hi,

I am experiencing an issue with Confluence regarding page permissions. I have one parent page with many child pages. During development, the pages are only visible to me and my team, which works fine.

However, when I publish the pages, I need to manually change the permissions for each individual child page. Is it possible for child pages to inherit the permissions from the parent page, so that I don’t have to update each one individually?

Thank you for your help.

Best regards,
Fabian

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Tushar Gohel
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August 19, 2025

Hello @Fabian Schmidt 

Welcome to the Atlassian Community! 

In Confluence, child pages automatically inherit view restrictions from their parent pagesHowever, edit permissions are not directly inherited. This means that anyone who can view the parent page can also view the child page, but edit permissions need to be set explicitly on the child page. 

 

Here is the Atlassian artical for more information: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/add-or-remove-page-restrictions/#How-inherited-restrictions-work

 

Thanks,

Tushar

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