Page permissions doubt

[Anthony_Benitez]

There is a sub-page with some data I would like to have only some team members to have access to, but only that subpage. They have view permissions to the space, but the page tree I manage is very restricted. The problem is that even when they have view permissions to that subpage, they can't access the information, is that because they don't have view permission to the parent page?

[Stephen Deutsch]

Hi Anthony,

That is correct, view restrictions cascade down from parents to children, so if any of the parent/ancestor pages are restricted, then the children/descendants will be restricted too (Edit restrictions do not cascade).

[Anthony_Benitez]

In that case, by allowing view permissions to the parent page, would that cascade to the child pages, or I could then only allow to view one child page of that tree?

[Stephen Deutsch]

Imagine hypothetically if you could restrict the parent and still view a child page. If you restrict the view to the parent page, then how would the child page be displayed in the sidebar? Simply floating with no parent? (restricted pages are not displayed at all, even in the sidebar, because even the title might be confidential)

That's why view restrictions are inherited by the children/descendants. Your only options are:

• to unrestrict the parent pages,
• move the page that you want people to be able to view to another location,
• if you really want to keep the information from the page in the same place, move the page to a location that is visible by the team, change the name slightly, create a new page in the original location with the original name, and use the "Include Page" macro to display the same text of the moved page in this new page in the same location.
• You can do the same thing in the opposite direction with a user macro. Enter the following user macro (you can use an id of link-to-page-id and name of "Link to Page ID"):

## @param PageToInclude:title=Page ID of page to include|type=string|required=true
#set ( $allowedPages = ["12345678"] ) // $allowedPages = ["1", "2", "3"]
#if ( $allowedPages.contains($paramPageToInclude) )
 #set ( $Long = $generalUtil.getSystemStartupTime() )
 #set ( $pageId = $Long.parseLong($paramPageToInclude) )
 #set ( $page = $pageManager.getPage($pageId) )
 #set ( $pageContent = "<p>Page not Found</p>" )
 #set ( $pageContent = $page.getBodyAsString() )
 $pageContent
#end

substituting "12345678" with the page ID that you want to show, or for additional pages by following the template (this is necessary because it bypasses Confluence permissions, so if you don't restrict the pages then someone could use it to display any page in Confluence). Then create a page with a slightly different name somewhere in the space that is visible to the team and insert this macro along with the page ID to display the page content there.