🔓[NEW] Restrictions

Understanding restriction in Confluence pages

Finding Restrictions

Showing restrictions can be turned on by pressing the small lock on the control bar.

Turn on restriction by pressing the lock button

There are 4 different icons representing the restrictions for a page:

Restrictions shown for some pages

• Opened grey lock: No restriction affects the page - accessible

• Closed red lock: View restriction directly set on the page - view restricted

• Opened red lock: View restriction inherited from a parent - view restricted

• Blue open lock: No view, but edit restriction applied only - edit restricted

Understanding Restrictions

You can get a more detailed explanation of the set restrictions when hovering or clicking on the colorful restriction markers. If you wish to update a restriction, you can navigate to the page and use Confluence's built-in restriction editor.

Inspect who has restricions set for

Inherited view restriction

You can change the root page for a macro to show only the expected pages. Read more here:

GitBook

Change macro root

When the root page has an inherited view restriction (opened red lock), every page will inherit it. If a page contains any more directly set view restrictions, it will be marked with a closed red lock.