Edit Permission Inheritance for Confluence Cloud

What is it?

The Edit Permission Inheritance App allows to inherit the edit permissions defined on a page down to all of its child pages. The app does not introduce an additional permission level. It basically copies the edit permissions to all child pages and takes care of added pages.

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Getting started

To define your first edit permission inheritance follow those steps:

Step	Screenshot
Navigate to the parent which shall be the starting point of your "edit permission inheritance".
Define the edit permission as needed
Click on the Edit Permission Inheritance Icon
Turn on "Edit permission inheritance" at the top of the dialog.
Select additional options if needed (for details refer to the next section).
Click "Apply".

The app now starts inheriting the edit permissions to all descendants of this page.

The app is applying the inheritances intentionally slow. Please consider ~1 second per descendant before the inheritance is completed.

Due to the Confluence Cloud architecture you might not see inherited edit permissions on descendants without reloading a descendant page.

The edit permission inheritance options

Option selected	Inheritance behavior
None	When you hit the apply button all descendants get the same edit permissions as the parent page. Additional edit permissions are kept.
Remove additional edit permissions during inheritance	Same as "None" but additional edit permissions on child pages are removed.
Always grant an edit permission to the creator of the page	Same as "None" but the creator of a page will always get an additional edit permission.
Only apply edit permission changes not the whole set	Same as "None" but only the edit permission changes done on the parent page are inherited not the whole set. This might be useful in case you changed the permissions of child pages and don’t want to loose those changes.