Permission Explorer & Manager is a Forge-based Confluence Cloud space app that gives space admins a clear, actionable view of page-level restrictions across an entire space, for any user or group.
1.1 What it does
When you open Permission Explorer & Manager from the space sidebar and run a scan, it:
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Scans all pages in the current space and builds a structured permissions report.
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Reviews whether the selected user or group has view and edit access on each page
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Shows other viewers and editors who have explicit restrictions set
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Lets you filter results by access type
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Allows you to grant or remove view and edit restrictions in bulk, directly from the results
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Open up selected restricted pages to the whole space audience - removing all view or edit restrictions in one action
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Presents results in a page tree structure, making it easier to understand permission inheritance and page hierarchy
1.2 When to use it
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Onboarding |
Grant a new team member access to all relevant pages in one action |
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Offboarding |
Remove a departing user's edit access across the whole space quickly |
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Access audit |
See at a glance which pages exclude a specific user or group |
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Restriction cleanup |
Find pages with unexpected restrictions and resolve them |
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Opening restricted content |
Remove all restrictions from selected pages at once, making them visible to everyone with space access |
1.3 How it works
Permission Explorer & Manager runs inside Confluence as a Forge space app. It uses the Confluence REST API to read page restrictions and - if you have space admin rights - write changes back. All data stays within your Confluence Cloud instance.
Permission Explorer & Manager only manages page-level restrictions. Space-level permissions (e.g. who can view or edit the entire space) are managed in Space settings → Space access → Users/Teams and groups.