How to set permissions/restrictions to other spaces?

Heri Andiyani

Currently, I have permission as site-admins and administrators. As administration function, I need to restrict spaces and pages created by other users.

The goal is :

1. User A can access Space B, but only the Overview page.

2. User A cannot access all pages in Space B.

Is there any simple way to do this?

unknown

Hi @Heri Andiyani,

I am not sure if my understanding of your question is right. So, you are looking to have User A access Space B. But the access is restricted in the sense that this User will only be able to access Overview page and all the other pages stand restricted?

It is probably important here to understand how many spaces are we talking about where a given User stays restricted vs having access. 

When Users need to be restricted (as per your requirement) to not more than a few spaces, we want them to be part of Confluence-users group and not have that change. In which case, User A would have all access to all pages in Space B (unless there are page level restrictions enforced). Now, keeping the permissions as is for the Overview page, all the other pages need to be restricted manually for this User. For pages with Parent-Child relationship, if you were to have viewing restriction on the parent page, it would suffice to restrict viewing on even its child pages. But for all the other pages that don't have a parent to inherit this restriction from, you will have to do it individually.

When there are more Spaces that User A is restricted to than he is able to access, then we could kind of work this differently. In this case, you can remove this User from Confluence-User groups and add him as a User or created a group and associate him and start giving access to this group to the Spaces that he needs to access and again deal with restricting the pages as mentioned above.  If we were to take the route of having the User removed from the Confluence-users group and start to associate a new group to each user, it may become cumbersome. However, this works if you are looking at the same set of Users having same permissions across spaces which means you only will end up with a few groups and not really looking at one group per User.

Hope this helps!

Thanks

Kalyani