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How do I restrict groups from adding child pages to a page, if they have Space edit permissions?

Yaacov Weingarten

I have a group X that is granted Page Add permission on my DOC Space. Within the DOC Space, I have some pages that members of X can edit and there are some pages that I have explicitly restricted editing permission to members of group Y.

However, it seems that people from group X manage to Create pages as children of the pages that they do not have edit permissions for. Is there a way of restricting members of Group X from adding pages to pages they cannot edit?

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

No, because they have "create page" rights in the space. The only way to stop them adding pages beneath other pages would be to remove their "view" rights to the parent pages, so they cannot be on the page to create the child page.

Yaacov Weingarten

Seems rather silly to me. Essentially, it is a "violation" of the edit restriction (especially if the parent page includes a "Children Display" macro) and in ways makes the restriction superfluous.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Makes perfect sense to me. Why should I not be able to create pages beneath other pages I can't edit?

Yaacov Weingarten

Why shouldn't you be able to edit the page? - Obviously, the author of the page does not want you to. There may be situations where the author of the page does not want you to add child pages so that an outside observer will easily identify the source of the information for the entire sub-tree.

Or take the concrete case that I am working on - we have a documentation Space, where the group of Technical Writers are responsible for the content. There are a few pages within the Space, where developers are granted permissions to update the information, but they are not expected to generate new content, in order to enforce certain style guides. So the developers need to be granted the Space "Add page" permission, but only have "Edit" permissions for the pages they need to update. But this then allows them to create new "documentation" pages that may not adhere to the style guide. It would make more sense to allow them to comment on the documentation pages, but not create new pages.

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