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Default Permissions for New Group

Alex Sramek

We're planning on adding several new groups to our Confluence instance.

Is there any way to set what this group's default permission settings will be in various existing spaces?

I know how to set up what their permissions will be in a NEW space, but what permissions do they get in spaces that already exist?

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Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Alex Sramek

New groups will not have any permissions in existing spaces.

There is no native functionality in the Confluence Cloud UI to add new groups to multiple individual Space Permissions settings in one action. You have to go to each space and modify the permissions settings in that space to include the new groups.

You could leverage the API to programmatically add groups to space permissions.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v1/api-group-space-permissions/

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Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Alex Sramek

New groups will not have any permissions in existing spaces.

You could leverage the API to programmatically add groups to space permissions.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v1/api-group-space-permissions/

Alex Sramek

Got it, thanks!

This won't break any paradigms on my end, which is good news.

It actually kinda sounds like a preferable situation. Is there any way to remove groups from the "Default Space Permissions" list, so that spaces only manage permissions of groups relevant to them?

Trudy P Claspill

Yes.

Click the gear icon near your avatar.

Find Space Permissions in the navigation bar on the left. It should be directly under Global Permissions.

Click the Edit Permissions button.

In the grouping at the top of the page where default space permissions are defined uncheck all the options for any group that you don't want to have permissions by default in newly created spaces going forward.

Save the changes.

This has no impact to spaces that already exist. For pre-existing spaces the permissions have to be removed from the individual spaces.

Alex Sramek

Ahhh, OK, I had misunderstood the paradigm a bit before, think I get it now.

So all spaces have permissions listings for all groups, and when a new group comes along, it'll be populated among all the spaces, just with all the boxes unchecked.

(I had guessed the space just might not have entries at all for the new groups)

Thanks for getting me up to speed!

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