Permission on pages

[Robert Pineres]

Hello,

Two questions.

1. Are the permission adjustments made via the bottom left permissions or the padlock on the top of the page?

2. How can I publish a page for only one person to see besides myself. If I add a child page and publish, everyone can see it. 

Thank you.

[Peter Wilhelm · Accepted solution]

Use the padlock at the top of the parent page and set the value in the dropdown at the top of the Restriction popup to "Viewing and editing restricted". Then you should see Everyone "has no access" and you can add individuals below that to grant access to either view or edit as needed. Then on child pages, you should see the padlock icon is there too. Click that and it should say "There are inherited view restrictions." That's referring to the parent page's restrictions, meaning all children/below will have the same restrictions as the ancestor page where you initiated them. You can set additional restrictions on certain children/below if you like also.

[Robert Pineres]

Thank you for your explanation. Greatly appreciate it! :)

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Confluence is using three different permissions, global, space and page restrictions. Permissions on a space is adjusted under space settings, and if you have the right permission you can set page restrictions on who can view and edit a page. View permissions are inherited down to child pages, edit permissions are not inherited down.

So for you second question, all you would have to do is add the other user to the page restrictions and give them at least view permission.

[Robert Pineres]

Thank you for the great explanation on different levels of permissions. 

Let me explain better my 2nd question. I am learning to be an admin. I want to create a page for someone and myself to create this page with no one else to have view access. Will, it be better to put it in my personal space for now and then move it once done to a public page to inherit permissions as a child page?

Or

Is there a better and easier way?