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Confluence - OOPS Your task change couldn't be saved

Dean Bigbee
January 31, 2020

Install: Confluence Cloud

Browsers Tested: Safari, Chrome, Brave (across multiple users on each)

Details:

Our organization has been dealing with this issue for nearly 2 years. About 1 in 20 tasks will never be able to close out, due to this error upon clicking the checkbox. It makes Confluence unusable for action item tracking.

We've tried workarounds - such as deleting the task from the page (which doesn't delete it from the task list), deleting the entire page (which sometimes does finally remove the task), etc. But no fix that is sustainable and consistent.

Any help or insight here?

Screenshot:

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Rodney Hughes
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August 2, 2016

Milo's recommendation is the correct way of handing what each User is allowed to do in the Space overall.

However if the objective of your Space is to share knowledge, limiting the creation process to just a few people sets a bit of an elite-ism of who has the knowledge - i.e. there may be (most likely is) a whole bunch of other knowledge held in the mass of employees that could be shared as long as you don't prevent the mass of employees creating pages.

But obviously some pages need to be maintained by ONLY a select few so that is why you can set Page Restrictions for Editing.  Go to the particular page you want to protect such that only a nominated set of people can edit the page content.  Select Ellipsis (three dot icon) then Page Restrictions.  Add each name (or Permissions Group) to the list of allowed Editors.  Note you have to do this page-by-page that you want to restrict the editing users

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Milo Test
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August 2, 2016
  1. Go to User management:
    image2016-8-2 10:40:50.png
  2. Select Groups:
    image2016-8-2 10:41:38.png
  3. Click Create group:
    image2016-8-2 10:42:4.png
  4. Create a new group and add the editors to that group.
  5. Go to the space in question and select Permissions from the Space tools menu:
    image2016-8-2 10:43:0.png
  6. Add the group you created in steps 3 and 4 and give them Add Pages access:
    image2016-8-2 10:44:28.png 
  7. Give everyone else (probably the confluence-users group) only View and optionally Comments Add access.

 

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Milo Test
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August 2, 2016

Just put editors in their own group and give only that group Add Pages access to the space.

Bhanu Prasad
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August 2, 2016

Hi Milo,

Thanks for ur answer.

Can U please brief me more, how we can do it?

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