Access to individual page(s) in a space

Volker Jakob

We're using confluence spaces for collaborating and/or communicating with clients. There are constellations when a client should access only certain pages within a space.

I'm not able to figure out how to handle this. I'm aware of the permission system and that it all starts with permission to access the space and further down the page restriction.

This means in more detail (for grant someone access to only one or several pages):

1. Client get access to the space
2. All pages need a page restriction for allowed users
3. The pages that the client is allowed to access, won't get a page restriction

It feels cumbersome to handle it that way although I'm not sure if I miss something.

How to deal with such a scenario? Any thoughts are welcome.

Thank you!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Hi Volker,

It's a bit more clever than that, as view restrictions cascade, but the way it works may not suit the way you want to structure your pages within a space.

I find it easier to explain this with a worked example.  Imagine you have

• Page A
  • A1
    • A1.1
    • A1.2
  • A2
• Page B
  • B1
  • B2

Now lets say you put the following restrictions in place for Alice and Bob:

• Page B is restricted to be visible only to Bob
• Page A1 is restricted to be visible only to Alice

With that setup, 

• Alice can see every page named with an A, but no pages with B.
• Bob can see all B pages, and Pages A and A2, but no pages with A1

You only need to restrict two pages to protect the six partially hidden pages.

What you need to do is place your pages into two trees - one tree visible to your clients, and the other not.