Do I have the right Permissions?

TJ Isselhard

I've inherited a confluence page. It's is pretty robustly built out. Works great. I love it. I am trying to make sure other users have the right permissions, though, and I can see one area where we have editors flagged by name, but I don't see a way to add a new one. Is there a way to do this? Or does the fact that I can't see an option to do so indicate I don't have the right permissions?

Meg Bailey

Hi TJ! 👋 Confluence is open by default, so unless the page creator (or another collaborator) added restrictions to the page, anyone with space permissions should be able to edit it.

Here are links to support documentation for adding or removing page restrictions in Confluence Cloud editor and page restrictions in Confluence Data Center + Server. 

If you're using the new editor (you're in a Confluence Cloud instance), here's the TL;DR for  checking and managing page permissions: 

1️⃣ Click the lock icon 🔓 in top right corner of the Confluence page: 

2️⃣ This will open a dropdown menu with the following options for page permission settings: "Anyone on Confluence can view and edit", "Anyone on Confluence can view, some can edit", and "Only specific people can view or edit".

3️⃣ If either of the latter two options are selected, you can search and add users with @ mentions to edit their page permissions. (Just remember to "Apply" once you've modified permissions 🙂)