Question about child pages not inheriting parent permissions in Confluence Cloud

Đặng Thị Thu Cẩm

Hello Atlassian Support,

We’re having an issue with page permissions in Confluence Cloud.

• We set view-only permission on a parent page.

• However, the child pages under that parent do not inherit the same permissions automatically.

• As a result, we have to manually set restrictions for each child page (and sub-pages), which is very time-consuming for large page hierarchies.

Question:
Is this the expected behavior in Confluence Cloud?
Is there any way to make child pages automatically inherit the parent page’s restrictions, or apply permissions in bulk for a parent and all its descendants?

This behavior is causing difficulties for our team when managing space/page permissions.
We’d appreciate clarification or recommendations on best practices.

Thank you.

Christos Markoulatos -Relational-

Hi Thu Cam,
Yes, this is expected behavior in Confluence Cloud. View restrictions are inherited by child pages, but edit restrictions are not, and there’s no native way to make them cascade automatically. Bulk updates aren’t supported out of the box either, but you can use marketplace apps to apply restrictions across a page tree. Best practice is to manage access primarily through space permissions, use groups instead of individuals, and apply page restrictions sparingly for easier maintenance.

Hope this helps