Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Confluence gives you all the tools to make your installation as open or as closed as
you would like it to be. While we go over the options and how to enable them, please
keep the following points in mind:
• Confluence is a tool for communication and collaboration; allowing your
users to view and edit as much content as possible. This will help you getting
the most out of the transparent knowledge exchange in your organization.
So, restrict a space or page only if you have a good reason for doing so.
• Confluence keeps track of every change made to a page or blog post. This
makes it easy to see who changed what and, if required, revert the content
to a previously saved state.
In a situation where everybody works on documents on their own desktop, people
aren't used to getting feedback and input. This can be a cultural shift that a company
has to go through while starting to work with Confluence. Before restricting access to
a space, page, or blog post, ask yourself, "Why should this document be private and
what is the harm in making it more visible within my organization?"
Global permissions
Global permissions are site-wide permissions and can be assigned only by system
administrators and Confluence administrators. Global permissions can be assigned
to groups, individual users, and anonymous users.
Before we go into how to change the different global permissions, it's good to know
the different administrator roles:
•
Super user
: Any user that belongs to the confluence-administrators group
has full administrative access to Confluence. A super user can also view and
edit all content even if it is restricted by permissions.
•
System Administrator
: Users with the System Administrator global
permission have full administrative access to Confluence but cannot
view or edit the content they don't have permissions to.
•
Confluence Administrator
: Users with the Confluence Administrator global
permission have restricted access to the Confluence administrative functions.
Confluence administrators cannot, for example, install new add-ons. More
detail on which functions are restricted are in the
Comparing the administration
roles
section.
