# Restrictions

## Finding Restrictions

Showing restrictions can be turned on by activating **Show restrictions** under the **Activity menu**.

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

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* **Opened grey lock**: No restriction affects the page - accessible
* **Closed&#x20;**<mark style="background-color:red;">**red**</mark>**&#x20;lock**: View restriction directly set on the page - view restricted
* **Opened&#x20;**<mark style="background-color:red;">**red**</mark>**&#x20;lock**: View restriction inherited from a parent - view restricted
* <mark style="background-color:blue;">**Blue**</mark>**&#x20;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.

<figure><img src="https://3127100801-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F6Qd56HuOWbLLMlBK7tbG%2Fuploads%2FLLk92U4uDi1orC9Z9b1n%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=f63fcae3-7767-4e97-9d05-0668ab4cc650" alt=""><figcaption><p>Inspect who has restricions set for</p></figcaption></figure>

## Inherited view restriction

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

{% embed url="<https://app.gitbook.com/o/-MQWwyNQcMa-mipnVPpo/s/6Qd56HuOWbLLMlBK7tbG/~/changes/28/cloud-users-guide/using-acnc#macro>" %}
Change macro root&#x20;
{% endembed %}

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.