Assign User Permissions via Tags

[Keith Shire]

Is it possible to assign security permissions via tags? So for example we have a KB space and we want user X to be able to view and comment on pages that are tagged with "Tag1". All other pages remain hidden. This would save on having multiple spaces or managing page permissions individually.

[Daniel Langley]

This can be addressed by user groups.

Instead of tagging the page set the viewing permissions to specific user groups with one of those groups being the tag of interest. When a new team member needs access to a specific set of pages you can add them to the user group and that gives them access to all pages that group can see.

[Igor M.]

Unfortunately,

This is not natively possible, each page has to have its permissions assigned individually via permissions option.

Regards,

Igor

[Keith Shire]

@Igor M_,

Thanks for confirming, do you know if it's on the roadmap or a good plug-in that will achieve this?

Best,

Keith

[Igor M.]

Hey @Keith Shire

Unfortunately, I don't think it's on a roadmap as it would require major product redesign, including additional layers in regards to who is allowed to tag pages, which would move away from simple 3 layer permissions setup (Global, Space, Page) making permissions more complicated and opening the potential for security holes.

Current model allows you to simply add the user to page permissions of the pages he can access, it might require some admin overhead, but it can be simplified by knowing what permission current page has, you can actually create a custom macro to print that, see https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-can-I-show-the-Page-Permissions-in-the-page-itself/qaq-p/19150 this discussion for that.

In addition, if you wish for the user to know which pages he should be looking at, you can just @mention user on a page or in comments so they get notified

There are few third-party plug-ins https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?marketingLabel=&query=permissions&cost=&category=&hosting=&product=confluence&_ga=2.113254337.715450882.1531601192-1896357939.1530550780 that deal with permissions, but I don't know any of them will offer the functionality you are looking for.  

A similar question was also discussed in this thread https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-I-limit-permission-based-on-labels-in-confluence/qaq-p/423106.