Bulk change restrictions? And understanding if restrictions overwrite permissions

[Lea_Huniat]

Hey,

I'm trying to wrap my head around permissions and restrictions in Confluence and wanted to check a few things:

When a group or user has edit permissions they still won't be able to edit any content that is restrcited to 'view only', correct?

What's the case when a group or user is denied editing permissions but a content piece is set to 'anyone can view and edit'? Will the group / user be able to edit or not?

And also, I am dealing with the issue that our content pieces have different restrictions and idealy we'd want them only to be edited by the content owner and one other person - what's the best way to go here? Chaning restrcitions for each content piece or create a group that can edit and groups that have view only?

Is there a way to change restrcition on multiple content pieces?

Sorry for the many questions. I'd appreciate any help! Thank you!

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Lea_Huniat I actually went through this same series of questions myself on Friday. We had a Guest group that had access to one space (1), but then someone decided they needed access to another space (2), so I needed to:

1. Move the pages from space 1 into space 2.
2. Give the group access to space 2.
3. Give each guest in the group All in View and Add in Comments; give only guest who can edit specific pages Add in Pages, whiteboards, databases, and Smart Links. (I also needed to do this for other users in space 2 that should not be able to edit pages.)
4. Go through each page in space 2 (1 at a time, since there is no built-in bulk change feature, and we weren't going to add a 3rd-party app for something I can just take care of each time we add a new page) and set the page restrictions. Luckily 🤣, there are only about 100 pages, and I needed to do this exercise anyway to restrict editing from other users in the space. 

[Akhand Pratap Singh]

Hello @Lea_Huniat

Good day, Welcome to Atlassian Community

When a group or user has edit permissions they still won't be able to edit any content that is restricted to 'view only', correct

Answer: That is Correct, they will not be able to edit it

What's the case when a group or user is denied editing permissions but a content piece is set to 'anyone can view and edit'? Will the group / user be able to edit or not?

Answer: No they will not be able to, one must be added into Space in order to be added into restriction, if restriction is set as open it is open to anyone in the space, in that case it considers space permission. whenever everyone is selected, it will Consume whatever the space’s access settings are.

Is there a way to change restriction on multiple content pieces?

Answer: Can't recall this as a native feature, you can try 3rd party plugins, review this article.