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Can creation of pages at certain level/s be prevented?

geoff.gaylard

Hi,

I'd like to know if it's possible to prevent users from creating pages at particular levels in a hierarchy of pages.

Eg, say I have the following pages at the top level of the hierarchy, under the Home page in a space:

Category 1
Category 2
Category 3

Can users be stopped from creating more pages at the above level, but be allowed to add/edit pages under each of the above top-level pages?

It seems to me that this ability is fairly necessary, otherwise you can't control the way in which pages are classified. Eg, I want all 'procedure manuals' to go under a Procedure Manuals page, and I want to prevent someone creating a new parent page called 'Manuals' and putting procedure manuals under that...

Thank you.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

No, there's no way to stop people creating pages in a space if you have given them create page permissions. That's one of the points of a wiki - you have the flexibility to collaborate properly!

geoff.gaylard

One of the points of a wiki is being able to classify content in a logical and consistent manner.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Yes. And you can't do it if you block people from creating pages in the right place.

Preventing people creating pages in (potentially) the "wrong" place is a technical answer that does not help you with logical or consistent structure. It's an anti-pattern, likely to make more of a mess than a free-for-all because more people are going to end up creating content in totally the wrong place instead of somewhere slightly wrong. It also discourages content creation and collaboration.

The right answer to this problem is "use a wiki properly". Encourage your people to understand where things should be in your structure and guide and educate them if they get it wrong. Don't denigrate their contributions or tell them they're wrong so they can't do it.

geoff.gaylard

So, what you're telling me is I can't define categories for documentation. That makes sense. And that people can just put stuff wherever they like. All good.

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