This page is intended for space owners and administrators. It explains the new standard for access roles and their administration.
Roles
We have defined 4 standard roles as shown below.
Admin: This role has the greatest amount of access. It can create, modify and delete all content in the space. In addition it has the ability to administer overall space settings and manage page restrictions.
Contributor: This is the standard role for most space editors. Generally this role is configured so that can create, modify, and delete all content in the space.
Commenter: This is effectively a 'view-only' role in private spaces. The only permissions granted is view and comment.
View Restricted: This is a special group. The purpose of this group is to manage a special population of users (other than the population of admins, contributors, and commenters), who need to see pages that are restricted.
Role Group Names
Each space has a custom name for these roles in the pattern of: app:confluence:<space_id>:<role_name>
Role Confluence Configuration (by default)
Managing Access
To add or remove people access policies you control, see the 'Managing Groups' section.
Why use groups and not add people?
We are moving away from using individual person assignments, as it creates a more difficult and less secure application to manage. Please refrain from adding individual users directly to Confluence permissions.
Setting up page restrictions
You have a page (and it's subpages) that you would like to restrict to be viewable or editable by a smaller set then the overall space. This is how we recommend to do it.
- Go to the page (or top page of a section) and click the lock icon as shown below.
- Select how you would like to restrict.
- In the blank field, start typing in the group names (using the pattern shown above) that you want to grant access to.
Note: You can not give people edit rights on a restricted page/section, if they don't have edit rights to the (entire) space.