Setting restrictions to entire space or child pages

Question

For the most part, we would only want 1 group to have the "can edit" ability in a space, and everyone one else the "can view" ability .

This seems to be have to be set manually by user, every time a new page is created (room for use error = not getting set).

or

Has to be re-visited by user with sufficient privileges to set restrictions, one page at a time.

Is there a way to set page restrictions to an entire space?

Furthermore, is there a way to set page restrictions to a parent page, that will be inherited by all of its child pages?

Ste Wright · Answer

Hi @Chris P_

As Carla mentions, if this is space-level (i.e all pages including the home page), it's easiest to modify the space permissions:

* Go to Space Settings > Permissions
* Remove all users / groups from the Pages - Add permission who don't require it - Add controls both creation and editing of pages
* Add in the users from "group 1" - either as a Group (which you can set up via your user administration settings) or as individual users, if you'd prefer to manage membership from a space-level.

^ If however, you need some users to have create/edit permissions and only restrict some page trees within the space, there's no default method of doing this at this stage. There is a suggestion to enhance the platform which you can vote on - see CONFCLOUD-5095 (albeit it's 14 years old).

Your other option is an app - such as Scroll Documents for Confluence - which can handle inheritance of edit permissions.

Ste

Carla Ann Rowland · Answer

The easiest way is make a "group 1,"

Go to spaces and click on the permissions for the space belonging to "group 1" and alter the permissions reducing  confluence users to view only and add "group 1" with appropriate permissions.

Any pages (parent and child) should inherit the permissions from the space settings.