I need to restrict my restrictions on a page

[David Yu]

Here's a use case I just encountered. How does one allow editing of a page, but not allow users to modify the page's restrictions? Another requirement is I don't want to completely disable page restrictions for other pages within the space.

It seems a bit weird that if creator A authors page, and grants read to user B, user B can remove the view permission to creator A.

I've searched jira.atlassian.com and the classic forums but didn't come up with anything.

[SarahA · Accepted solution]

Hallo David

You can set the space permissions to allow/disallow the editing of page restrictions. Here's the documentation:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Assigning+Space+Permissions

I hope this helps!

Cheers, Sarah

[David at David Simpson Apps]

Sarah, you're a proper wiki ninja. Treat yourself to a chocolate.

[David Yu]

Thanks Sarah, but it doesn't quite work because I need to allow users to restrict pages. I just don't want them to remove restrictions on another page that they didn't author.

For example, I have a very private document and a user can accidentally just add confluence-users to the View permissions without my knowledge. But I want to allow this user to edit the content of my page.

[SarahA]

Hallo David

Ah, I see. I can't think of any way to restrict the permissions to the person who authored the page. You can restrict the "restrictions" permission to a given group. For example, you can say one group of people can add/edit pages but not restriction permissions, and another group can add/edit and also restrict permissions. But none of the Confluence permissions allow you to distinguish between person who originally wrote the page and any other author.

[David Peterson]

There's nothing built in that allows it. Basically 'edit' permission gives 'edit permission' permissions also. The only workaround I can think of would be to create a custom theme that checked it the current user was the creator and hid the 'permissions' section of the edit page manually. Definitely a hack, and has some limitations. You would probably want to allow confluence admins to still modify permissions, in case the original page creator's account was closed/deleted for whatever reason.