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Grant space read write permissions to a group but creator only has write

Ronald van Sleeuwen October 8, 2025

Hi,

The Confluence space permissions are not clear to me in the space > access > groups chart.

I've read https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/assign-space-permissions/ but it's still not clear to me.

What I want:

groupA needs to have read/write permissions on the spaceY

then when user1 (for example) creates a page he/she needs to be the only one that has edit/write permissions to that page. Not the other members of groupA even though they have write/edit permissions through the space permissions (via groupA).

Is it possible and how do I set it up, which checkboxes need to be enabled and which not?

And no we don't want to set permissions/sharing on each individual page separately.

 

Thanks

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Jayesh Raghuvanshi
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October 9, 2025

@Ronald van Sleeuwen 

If “creator-only edit” is critical and manual page restrictions are not desirable, Confluence Cloud’s built-in functionality cannot meet this use case solely through space access/group permissions. You’ll need to set page restrictions each time a page is created

You can get more information in below KB artcile https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/assign-space-permissions/

Thanks
Jayesh R

Ronald van Sleeuwen October 9, 2025

Thank Jayesh for your reply.

I´m trying my luck with the share function (click the 3 dots with lock icon) as a workaround, so for example if I have a structure with folders :

rootfolder > subfolderA > subsubA1 > page1

                  > subfolderB > subsubB1

etc.

then grant groupX on rootfolder view permissions and these are then inherited to the subfolders and pages. 

But this needs some thinking on the structure and if you want to grant write permissions than it can get bit hard to manage is my guess.

Anyone any experience with this setup?

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Ronald van Sleeuwen October 8, 2025

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