Can I provide edit privileges to a Confluence user for a single page in a read-only Space?

Question

I have a Space that users can read but not edit.  But I want a few users to have edit privileges for a particular page (and its child pages).

I've set up those users with View and Edit for those pages, but they still can't edit them.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Trudy P Claspill · Accepted Answer

Hello Dan,

Confluence permissions are hierarchical.

At the top is the Space Permissions. If those provide only the View permission, you can't grant more permissions at the page level.

Also, at the space level, Confluence does not separate the Edit permission from the Add permission.

So, you would have to give those few users Add Page permissions at the space level.

Restrictions on pages are also hierarchical. If you set a restriction on page A, that same restriction will apply to all child pages, and cannot be overridden at a lower page leve.

So you would need to set the Edit restriction at the highest level page for the branches of pages that you don't want them to be able to edit, leaving the branch of pages you want them to be able to edit unrestricted at the highest level.

You said you want them to be able to edit "a particular page" and all its children. That page will therefore have to be a top level page that is unrestricted. If that particular page is a child page of another page, you can't restrict its parent to prevent editing, as that would also restrict the "particular page".

Here's a link to the Atlassian document that explains the relationship between space and page permissions.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/permissions-and-restrictions-139557.html

I hope that helps.

Andreas Purde · Accepted Answer

Dear Dan,

as @Trudy P Claspill correctly said you can't grant additional edit permissions on the page level which are not allowed on the space level.

What you can consider using our app Edit Permission Inheritance for this:

* Grant additional edit permissions on space level for the "few users".
* Create and inherited edit restriction on the Space's home page excluding the "few users".
* Create an additional inherited edit restriction on the "particular page" adding the "few users" here.

Kind regards

Andreas