Is there an automated way of making parent page restrictions apply to all its child pages ?

[avinjamuri]

Is there an automated way of making parent page restrictions apply to all its child pages ?

[Mirek]

Hi @avinjamuri,

Thank you for posting a question on Community. We are happy to help you with your problem. Please check if my below answer would help you resolve it.

Overview:

In Confluence there are two types of Restrictions (View and Edit). The View restriction is automatically applied to all child pages (which mean that if you do not have access to parent page you would not get access to child page). For Edit restriction it is more individual page by page.

If you however would like to see this functionality I encourage you to check a related ticket, watch and vote it to be sure that you would get updates.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-5095

In my opinion Confluence is a collaborative tool and have a easy ability to revert changes when someone did a wrong edit, so I recommend not to make many edit restrictions (only on those pages that you really do not want to be edited). 

Related documentation:

For complete information about how Restrictions work, how to set them you can check below documentation:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/add-or-remove-page-restrictions-724764891.html

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/permissions-and-restrictions-724765432.html

I hope that this answer would help you and it would at least get you the overall context on how this is working. If you have additional questions feel free to hit the Reply section (below my answer) to continue the thread and I would try to investigate.

[avinjamuri]

Just imagine , there are some 10 parent pages each having around 10 - 20 child pages , how cumbersome it is to implement edit restrictions for each page. 

[Matt Sardi]

I completely agree with @avinjamuri .  I thought i was losing my mind for a moment when page restrictions had been set however have "magically" broken and no one can explain Atlassian's failed software.  Why should we have to manually go to each page to re-apply restrictions lost by faulty software?