How do I set which whiteboards are editable?

[Scott Sobieraj]

Hello, 

I am creating multiple whiteboards on a Standard account, and only can have 3 editable at a time.  When I go to create the 4th, the 1st is marked Read-Only.  How can I later change the 4th one to be Read-Only to allow editing again on the 1st?

Thanks.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Scott Sobieraj The plain answer is that there is no way to make that older whiteboard editable again (much to the dismay of everyone on the Standard or Free plan).

One suggestion would be to have a coworker who does not already have 3 whiteboards create a new board and give you access to view and edit it.

[Scott Sobieraj]

That's genuinely goofy.  The language used is "you can only have 3 editable boards", not "only your 3 most-recently created boards will be editable".  If that's the case, and it's so easy to work around, I feel like either this is a bug where someone didn't implement the requirements correctly, or Atlassian at least need to change that language to better describe the intended behavior, and understand that people are working around it.

Hopefully someone from Atlassian will comment which is the case.  The Whiteboard feature is functionally useless in its current form under the restrictions; it forces me to clone a Whiteboard any time I want to re-open it, and then save it with a datestamp.  The UX is awful.

[Bibek Behera]

@Scott Sobieraj ,

Welcome to the community, 

Please use the lock icon on the whiteboard and modify it.

I believe the below thread will help you further.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Whiteboards/gh-p/confluence-whiteboards 

-Bibek

[Scott Sobieraj]

Hi Bibek,

The lock on Board 1 is showing "Unlocked" with permissions as "Anyone in this space can edit", but there is a banner at the top of the board saying that the board is Read-Only.

Board 4 also shows "Unlocked, anyone in this space can edit" but does not have the banner.

I want to edit Board 1 again, and no longer need to edit Board 4, how can this be done?