Ability to Inherit Edit Permissions in Confluence

Question

Looking for Add On suggestions that will allow edit permissions to be inherited to subpages in Confluence Cloud.  We tried Edit Permission Inheritance by Purde Software, however, once the edit permissions are inherited it is not possible to turn them off.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

It's one of those you won't ever see unless you happen to stumble on exactly the right docs or course material, or it bites one of your people and you get asked to sort out the mess!

I got very confused when they (briefly) changed it - nothing worked in protected spaces suddenly, took us ages to get through the upgrade testing, until it went back.

Inheriting edit restrictions does not make a lot of sense, it's incredibly limiting.

However, setting them down through a tree can be useful.  Not inheriting, the way view restrictions do it automatically, but a one-off "parse the tree, set edit restriction on all pages automatically".  This would leave people with the flexibility to change the restrictions later.

Obviously, I'd do this with Scriptrunner on Server, but I'm not sure it could be done on Cloud, I'll add to my learning list.  There may be other apps that can do it.  Maybe even Automation for Confluence?

Andy Gladstone · Answer

OK, I stand corrected and @Alexandra Astor you should listen to @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Actually, the edit restrictions do not cascade down, only view restrictions.

Atlassian dabbled briefly with it a few years ago and found it was a horrible thing to do to most of their customers, because, as mentioned, you then can't let people in to edit pages that are inheriting it.