I would like to restrict people from publishing new pages

[Suranjan Paul]

Hi Team,

Here's the problem statement:

I would like to restrict the creation and publishing of new pages to a handful of individuals. However everyone will have the rights to read/edit and publish existing pages.

Does this feature exist?

Thanks and Regards

[Phill Fox · Accepted solution]

Hi @Suranjan Paul 

As you may have encountered the permissions/restrictions on Atlassian Confluence Cloud are dependent on which version - free, standard, premium or enterprise that you have. 

When you are not on the Free plan you have much greater granularity to the settings that can be applied. Including the ability to restrict the creation of new pages. 

See https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/assign-space-permissions/

This link describes how to set the permissions at a Space level but if you want to restrict actions on a single page you should refer to 

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/add-or-remove-page-restrictions/

Again these are not available on the Free plans. 

Phill

[Marina]

Hi, i have the same question for confluence server / data center. Is there a feature on the roadmap?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No.  Atlassian have closed them with "won't do"

[Marina]

Thank you Nic, that's sad, of course. 
I feel, that Jira access rights management is much more comprehensive than Confluence one.

This simple thing would move it further to powerful web documentation tool.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Create page and edit page are the same permission, you can't grant them independently.  If a person can edit pages in a space, they can also create them.

[Phill Fox]

An alternative approach is to use a plugin like Comala Document Management (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215729/comala-document-control) to enforce an approval step between the creation/editing of the page and the publication. 
This will not stop people from creating/editing but will give control to make sure that only valid content is actually published. 

Thus you could have the simple workflow 

[Marina]

Thank you Phill, will have to look into add-on

[James Conway]

Hi @Phill Fox  thank you for your recommendation of Comala Document Management. 

Hi @Marina and @Suranjan Paul , as @Phill Fox suggested this is a great alternative for this scenario. The app can support your organisation in encouraging your users to use Confluence to collaborate while maintaining an appropriate customisable process to review and publish new or updated content.

You can get a free trial of Comala Document Management from the Atlassian Marketplace, please check out our webinars and if you have any questions you can contact our Customer Success team at http://support.comalatech.com

All the best

James
Senior Product Manager