🔓Restrictions

Understanding restriction in Confluence pages

Finding Restrictions

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

Turn on show restrictions

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.