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Background

Sometime after April 1March 31, 2024, a still unknown incompatibility between the Spring Boot Framework and Confluence led to edit permissions no longer being deleted . When an edit permission can’t be deleted the “Edit Permission Inheritance” might be incomplete/not consistent. This means that child pages might contain edit permissions which they shouldn’t.

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Step

Details

1

Get all active Edit Permission Inheritances by navigating to the following URL:

Code Block
https://example.atlassian.net/wiki/search?cql=editinheritenabled%3D%22true%22   

2

Navigate to each of the pages returned by the search and click on the Edit Permission Inheritance Icon:icon.

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3

Once the dialog opens the app searches for an incomplete inheritance. In case it detects issues a warning like this one is shown:

Note

Inheritance seems to be inconsistent. 1 (2770927747) descendants seem suspicious.

Fix those pages

4

Click on “Fix those pages” and wait until the action has been completed. Once completed the app searches for issues again and displays the results.

5

Move to the next page and re-start with step #2.