Can a PAGE inside a Space be viewed by more users than the Space's User group?

[Dan Lynch]

A User has requested that a Page within a Space be viewable by a much bigger pool of users than that of the Space it resides in, i.e., users would be able to read the page without seeing the rest of the Space.  Essentially, this is opposite of adding restrictions to the page.

Is this a case for Restrictions / Editing Restricted? Restrictions / Viewing and Editing Restricted? 

[Radek Dostál · Accepted solution]

This cannot be done unless the Space is accessible to the user in it's entirety (e.g. Anonymous access or confluence-users group). Each page first checks whether the user can browse the Space to begin with. After that, it checks whether the page has any restrictions and if so, is the user allowed.

The only option how you could make a page visible to everyone and keep other pages restricted is if you applied view restrictions to all of the pages other than the public one. This is not realistic and everybody would have to remember to restrict the page before they create one. It's kind of the reverse ironically.

You probably would want to create a new Space - with public permissions - and move that page over there.

[Dan Lynch]

As I suspected. Thank you, Radek.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

You can use either anonymous access or page links (the two "make it public" systems can't work at the same time, you have to pick one) to make pages available.

With anonymous access, it makes the entire space accessible to the entire world, but you can then use restrictions to limit access to page trees within the space.

The share page function allows you to give read access to a page to individual people, ignoring the space permission (but iit still respects restrictions) 

[Dan Lynch]

Thank you, Nic. This clarification supports the impression I got from reading the Help pages, which from my perspective are often circular or ambiguous.

A recurring request in my org is to provide read-only access to folks, and "Sharing" has seemed to be the ideal solution, but the documentation cannot bring itself to say so outright.