How to separate space restrictions for "adding" a page from page editing

Question

In my scenario, we have a confluence space that is tied to JIRA Service Desk. Only me and my boss have the ability to Add/Delete pages in that space since it's a customer-facing knowledge base.

While there aren't any pages with page-level restrictions on them, I don't have to worry about people interfering with our pages since the space is locked down for Add/Delete permissions.

However, I would like the ability to let certain users edit specific pages? How can I do this? If I give everyone the ability to Add/Delete pages, then I could give all pages a page-level restriction and then add editors onto specific pages, but then users could still create or delete new stuff.

Any suggestions on how I can prevent everyone in my company from creating new material in a space, but also give certain users the ability to edit specific pages from time to time?

James Dellow · Answer

Bearing in mind that Confluence is a wiki (so may not always work the way you might expect other content or document management systems to work), to my knowledge you can't give people the ability to edit content, but not add new content.

However, it might be something you could customise in Confluence Server to hide the option to create content in a particular space for certain users (along the lines of the HideElements for Confluence add-on), although it wouldn't stop someone going out of their way to do this.

Victor Mutambuki · Answer

Greg,

In addition, you can create a group of users, give or deny them certain permissions in your space.

For those users that you want to give additional permissions, add them as individuals in your space and give them the intended permissions.

Victor

Victor Mutambuki · Answer

Greg,

So if there are no page restrictions, go ahead and add them.

Victor