Admin rights to move page to another space?
Asked by Martin Thier:

Hi there,

I would like to move a page from space A to space B but I get the message "Only space administrators can move content to another space". In both spaces I have full rights except the admin right.

I am really surprised about this. Is it new that admin authorisation is required for this type of action?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Valerie Knapp
body: Hi [@Martin Thier](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5186237) , thanks for your question. Usually to move a page from one space to another, you need the delete pages permission from the source and the create pages permission in the destination. Please check the documentation for confirmation here

[Move, copy, and hide pages \| Confluence Cloud \| Atlassian Support](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/move-copy-and-hide-pages/)


author: Jessica
body: Hi [@Martin Thier](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5186237)

Thank you for sharing the screenshot and confirming this is how your permissions are on both spaces.

Currently, these are the space permissions necessary to move pages, also mentioned in our [Move, copy, and hide pages \| Confluence Cloud \| Atlassian Support](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/move-copy-and-hide-pages/):
> **Make sure you have the right space permissions**   
> When you move pages into a different space, you're essentially deleting them in their current space and adding them to the destination space. With that in mind, make sure you have the following permissions.
>
> In the page's current space:
>
> * **Space admin** permission
>
> In the destination space:
>
> * permission to **View** content in the space
>
> * permission to **View** the page or pages you want to move
>
> * permission to **Add** pages in the space

Please try granting yourself administrator space permissions in the current space where the pages are located, then try to move.

If it still doesn't work though, and you are sure you have at least the view and add permissions on the target space, then we can think of something like restrictions.

Let us know how it goes!

Cheers,  
Jessica

comments: author: Martin Thier
body: Hi [@Jessica](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3667333)

thank you. With Space admin permission it?s working.

But why is it needed? In my opinion, moving should be independent of admin permission.


author: Jessica
body: Hi [@Martin Thier](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5186237),

It was an expected change, and now it is necessary for any user to have the space administrator permission in order to perform page moves.

For more details on why this was changed, it can be found on this [post](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-Admins-articles/Change-Notice-Cross-space-moves/ba-p/2495507).

<br />

Hope this helps.

Regards,  
Jessica


author: Barbara Szczesniak
body: [@Jessica](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3667333) Thank you for pointing this out---I missed the post you linked to.


author: Martin Thier
body: Hi. Thanks for reply.

These are the rights that are set for my user in both spaces:

![2023-11-10 10_54_03-Berechtigungen f?r Bereiche anzeigen - Playground - WIKI ? Mozilla Firefox.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/291145i2408FC20741C8394/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2023-11-10 10_54_03-Berechtigungen f?r Bereiche anzeigen - Playground - WIKI ? Mozilla Firefox.png")

So, no admin right but all I need to move the page (display, add, delete). I have checked whether I can create new pages and delete existing pages in both spaces.

But when I try to move a page, this is the message I get:

![2023-11-10 11_02_54--_ Want to move this page - Playground - WIKI und 8 weitere Seiten - Gesch?ftlic.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/291152iEE33F6CF75EA1A85/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2023-11-10 11_02_54--_ Want to move this page - Playground - WIKI und 8 weitere Seiten - Gesch?ftlic.png")

Translated: "You cannot move this content. Only space administrators can move content to another space. Contact your administrator for help."

Is there perhaps a global right that only allows administrators to move pages between spaces?

comments: author: Valerie Knapp
body: Hi [@Martin Thier](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5186237) , thanks for your reply. That isn't the standard configuration of Confluence in the cloud but now I am wondering if maybe the page is restricted that you are trying to move.

[What are Confluence Cloud permissions and restrictions? \| Confluence Cloud \| Atlassian Support](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/what-are-confluence-cloud-permissions-and-restrictions/)

Are you the author of the page you are trying to move?


author: Martin Thier
body: Hi [@Valerie Knapp](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4929946)

I have created the page myself without any restrictions.

![2023-11-10 12_03_21--_ Want to move this page - Playground - WIKI und 10 weitere Seiten - Gesch?ftli.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/291170i41B85A8059B37D15/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2023-11-10 12_03_21--_ Want to move this page - Playground - WIKI und 10 weitere Seiten - Gesch?ftli.png")


author: Valerie Knapp
body: Hi [@Martin Thier](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5186237) , thanks for your reply. I am not sure what to tell you as this isn't the expected behaviour here. Let me escalate this to Atlassian to see if they can help.

Cheers


author: Barbara Szczesniak
body: [@Martin Thier](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5186237) This message does sound odd, since this feature doesn't have anything to do with whether you are a Space Admin.

If you have the delete and create permissions on the respective spaces, you should be able to do this action. I would expect any error message to indicate that you don't have one of these permissions.


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