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1

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

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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.

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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 (NEWUPDATED)

Please inspect those pages and

  1. Remove additional edit permission manually or

  2. Switch on the option “Remove additional edit permissions during inheritance” at least temporary and click on “Fix those pages”. ⚠️ Please note that this variant will also removes edit permissions which have been added to a child page manually.

Background: the app knows that something went wrong during inheritance on a specific page but did not keep records of what went wrong => a fully automated fix is unfortunately not possible.

Info

We are currently evaluating options to allow an easier detection an manual fix of the affected pages. We will update this page with more details soon.

5

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

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