Ability to grant access to pages only for certain people

Question

Hi!

So the Confluence documentation states that "When a user requests access to a restricted page, Confluence will send an email to up to 5 people who are most likely to be able to grant access".

Is there any way to change that? I want it to send the access request to certain people, not more or less "random" ones.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Cheers,

Mario

Kishan Sharma · Answer

Hi @Mario Britten Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

As mentioned by @Pramodh M  and @Support Team [Clearvision] it is currently not possible to set approvers who can grant access to a restricted page, but I think it would be a handy feature to have, I would recommend you to create it as a suggestion here : https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa

We can then vote for it and Atlassian will put in their backlog.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Yep, it's not quite random, but the algorithm isn't explained in full.

The guides I want to add to the answer here are more notes than explanations:

* It won't select users who have been disabled or deleted (because that would be pointless - they can't even log in, let alone let you in!)
* It priorities the original author of the page in the list of contributors a bit higher than just "last contributed", for a while after they wrote the page

Pramodh M · Answer

The People Order goes like this

* One who has created the Page
* Next, the Contributors who have access to the Page with Restriction permissions
* Next the Space Admin who can see the page (Sorted Alphabetically)

Reference here

There is no way we can change this.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html

Thanks,
Pramodh