Confluence: Restricting of 'adding' for users and goups

Chad Bell

Hi,

I just was wondering, is there any prospect of increasing the user permissions in Confluence so that as well as being able to restrict users to only being able to view a page and/or edit a page, that per page you could set permissions to stop users from adding pages, comments and blogs? I know this can be done at a space level but I'm looking to do this for individual pages.

The reason for this is we would like to setup a page hierarchy so that pages can form some sort of data structure to form our knowledge base and we don't want any user being able to change this hierarchy by adding their own page hierachies unless a user with the appropriate privileges stipulate that at a particular level users can add their own pages.

Thanks in advance.

Septa Cahyadiputra

Hi there,

I finally able to find the necessary workaround to achieve your purpose. Please try the following steps to create a macro that would hide the add page button

1. Access your administration page
2. Locate 'User Macro' button under 'General Configuration' section
3. Create a new user macro
4. Insert the Macro Name (e.g. addHide)
5. Insert the Macro Title
6. Choose 'RenderedL' under 'Definition of User Macro'
7. Enter this following code on your 'Template'

<style>
#add-menu-link
{
display:none
}
</style>

After the above steps is complete you would need to install a free plugin from CustomWare name Visibility Plugin. This plugin would allow you to configure Confluence to hide a certain content from each page for certain users or groups. Please review the documentation for further detailed on the plugin.

After you have installed the mentioned plugin you could use the following steps to hide the add button for certain users or groups:

1. Edit a page you wish to restrict users to add a new child page
2. Navigate to the bottom of the page
3. Add "Show If" macro and configure the restriction
4. Add the newly created user macor inside that macro
5. Saved the page
6. Voilà the add button page would be hidden for restricted users

The only drawback of the above steps is, user would still be able to add pages if they type the action address of add page manually.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,

Septa Cahyadiputra