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remove-restriction macro

Overview

The {remove-restriction} macro is used to remove View or Edit content-level permissions.

Where to use it?

Optional.

One or more {remove-restriction} macros can be put in a {trigger} macro.

If you want to add restrictions you can use the {add-restriction} macro.

You can remove/add or add/remove restrictions using these macros in any order.

If you want to add restrictions immediately after removing restrictions of the same type, you can use the {set-restrictions} macro instead†.

Restrictions don't give users permissions to content, but rather limit the users who have those permissions.

For example, if everyone has edit/view permissions for the space and you add edit restrictions to a page for user A and user B, only user A and user B can edit the page, and everyone else just view the page.

If you remove restrictions then you simply remove the limits you set for the permission, not the Confluence page permissions.

Parameters

Parameter

Required

Default

Notes

type

(tick)


What type of permission to remove?

  • view – assign the user/group view permission
  • edit – assign the user/group edit permission

Note: The permissions are set using Confluence's content-level permissions system and can thus be altered via the padlock icon.

user

(info)


One or more users to remove type permission from:

group

(info)


One or more user groups to remove type permission from:

(info) If neither user or group parameters are defined, then all content-level permissions of type will be removed.

† In some cases, due to Confluence permission threads, rather than using {remove-restriction} macro then {add-restriction}, it may be useful to use {set-restrictions}  macro.

The {set-restrictions} macro will clear any existing restriction of the type being set (view or edit) before setting that permission for the listed users or groups.

Example

{workflow:Restrictions}
   {state:Review|approved=Published}
      {approval:Review}
   {state}
   {state:Published}
   {state}
   {trigger:pageapproved|approval=Review}
      {remove-restriction:type=view}
      {remove-restriction:type=edit}
   {trigger}
{workflow}

All examples

See also

External Links:

Workflow Authoring Guide: