Diagram permissions

A diagram inherits the permissions of whatever stores it. If you can see the page, you can see its diagrams; if you can edit the page, you can edit them.

That is the whole model, and it is deliberate: a second permission system would be one more thing to get wrong.


#When you would change this

  • Answering a security question about who can see diagrams.

  • Working out why somebody cannot open a diagram.

  • Planning where to store diagrams that need tighter control.


#What you can set

Setting

What it does

Page diagrams

Follow the page's permissions and restrictions.

Space templates

Follow the space's permissions.

Global templates

Visible to everyone; managed by site admins.

Referenced diagrams

Follow the permissions of the page holding the source, not the page showing it.


#A few things that catch people out

  • A reference shows nothing to somebody who cannot see the source page, even on a page they can read.

  • Restricting a page restricts its diagrams immediately; there is no separate step.

  • To lock down one diagram rather than a whole page, see Restrict a diagram



Set it once, in the right place.