Space permissions do not apply to all child pages
Asked by Marcus O_Brien:

I go to a spaces **Main Space page,**and open the restrictions, and see that

**Everyone can view**

![everyonecanview.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/169720iB8F6ECF7A16DD502/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "everyonecanview.PNG")

There are also a few individuals can edit also.

Now I go to a child page within that same space and look at restrictions - and it says

"Everyone on Confluence can View and Edit"

![everyonehaspermissions.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/169721iFC47E970A2D21477/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "everyonehaspermissions.PNG")

Is there a way to allow everyone to have read only, with only a few people capable of editing ?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Restrictions work within the permissions, there's a couple of layers to it.

For someone to be able to see and edit a page within a space, they must have the space permissions to do that.

Restrictions limit things within the tree (view restrictions are recursive, affecting all pages below the current one, edit restrictions only apply to the current page)

This means you can actually do things like "Restriction says Nic and I can both see and edit this page", but unless I've got view and edit permissions in the space, I won't be able to do either!

comments: author: Marcus O_Brien
body: Hi [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) I dont see any edit permissions for the space. I already have everyone set to View only, what I now want is to just default everyone to no edit, and add only designated people to each page - but how do I stop everyone be able to edit any page with in the space ?

![al_permissions.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/169755iA2D3A87B8ABEB637/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "al_permissions.PNG")


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Sorry, yes, the new version of that page is slightly less clear than the old one.

The "add" column in the "pages" section used to be called "Create/Edit".

What your (relevant) permissions say here is that the groups called Administrators, confluence-users and site-admins all have view and add permissions, and hence edit rights. Restrictions on pages can take away those rights.

To answer your specific questions:

\>default everyone to no edit,

If you do this at the space level, then no-one will be able to edit (or add) pages. The restrictions will be irrelevant, people won't be able to edit pages in the space.

\>and add only designated people to each page

This is not how the Confluence permissions work. They permit first, restrict later.

\>but how do I stop everyone be able to edit any page with in the space ?

Probably remove "confluence-users" from the space permission, adding back only people who should be authors within the space. Then, if you need to further restrict authors, you can, by adding restrictions to pages to limit authors to more narrow groups or individuals.


author: Matthias Gaiser _K15t_
body: Hi [@Marcus O_Brien](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4336031)

I can't really explain the behaviour you see, but I think I have a solution for you.

In order to restrict permissions for the whole space, you can set [space permissions](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/assign-space-permissions/) instead of restricting the space homepage. Within the space permissions, you could allow anyone to view all the pages and only specific groups or people to do special other actions like editing, commenting, deleting, etc.

Does that help?

Cheers,  
Matthias.

comments: author: Marcus O_Brien
body: Hi [@Matthias Gaiser _K15t_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853318) thanks for the info, I think I was confused from the Add, Delete, Archive on the sapce, then edit being on the actual page.

Also different options apper, for example on a tree leaf page

![everyone.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/169757iCAC6A7C2A56D3728/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "everyone.PNG")

BUT, on the main home page for the space, I dont see the same Restrictions page as above, I see this one.

![anyone.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/169759i28E36660A099C024/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "anyone.PNG")


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