Edit button disappeared after upgrade to 6.11.2.

[Damon Cassell]

Upgraded Confluence Server from 5.10.2 to 6.11.2. Consequently the "edit" button has disappeared from many, but not all articles.

Where do I look? I saw an article about deleting plugin caches. I did that, and it did not help. I also tried flipping articles missing the edit button from Restricted back to No Restrictions and I still don't see the edit button.

[Jan-Peter Rusch · Accepted solution]

Hi Damon,

do you see any errors in the Confluence application log? Do you use any CSS or HTML modifying the look&feel of your site? Are the addon updated & not compatible addons disabled. Does the edit button appear if you start in safe mode? Do you use any proxy servers?

It's a major upgrade from 5.10.2 to 6.11.2

As the collaborative editing was introduced with Confluence 6, you might have to do some configuration on the Synchrony engine.

I guess, we need some more information...

Best

JP

[Damon Cassell]

• No CSS or HTML mods.
• I tried enabling safe mode. Edit button does not reappear.
• We mainly access the Confluence instance through a Pulse Secure SSL web appliance. However, I can also access the server from behind the SSL appliance directly, and the issue is the same.. no edit button.
• Disabled collaborative edit mode (Synchrony), problem persists.

Here is where it gets odd, and maybe this is all some kind of misunderstanding on my part or a bug that existed in 5.10.2 that I was used to, or a bug in 6.11.2:

My user account is in the confluence-administrators group. Supposedly "the 'confluence-administrators' group always has all permissions for all spaces". However, if I go into the Space Tools for a space where I don't have the edit button on articles, and add myself as an individual user to the permissions, the edit button then appears. 

Prior to the upgrade I had the edit button on all articles. So it seems to me like 6.11.2 is not actually obeying the "'confluence-administrators' group always has all permissions for all spaces" as claimed.

[JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_]

Hi Damon,

you're on the right path. Being a member of the confluence-administrator group doesn't give you the edit rights on restricted pages but it gives you the right to change the restrictions to add yourself or the confluence-administrator group to the page with edit rights. We had this in our company after changing from 5 to 6.

You might find some information going thru the release notes from 5 to 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 ...

Best

JP

[Damon Cassell]

Thanks JP. I think I get now that this is a feature and not a bug.