Saving the Rules page fails with "Failed to save. You may need Confluence admin permissions."
What you are seeing
Saving the Rules page fails with "Failed to save. You may need Confluence admin permissions.".
#Why it happens
Only Confluence administrators can save rule configuration. The page is fully interactive for everyone and only rejects at save time.
#What to do
Ask a Confluence administrator to make the change.
#Settings involved
Setting | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
Rule level (per rule) | Capable Quality → Manage → Rules | - |
Image alt text | Rules → Accessibility | - |
Heading sequence | Rules → Content & Structure | - |
#Limits that apply here
Limit | Value | What happens |
|---|---|---|
Rules are site-wide | One shared rule set for the entire site | - |
Indexed rules need index version 2 or later | The eight indexed rules only count pages | - |
#A few things that catch people out
Only Confluence administrators can save rule configuration or queue a report refresh. The Rules page and the Refresh button are interactive for everyone and only reject at the point of action.
Total issues sums per-rule page counts. Pages are not deduplicated and occurrences are not counted individually. A page failing three rules adds three.
A severity override is written implicitly by choosing a level other than the rule's built-in one, and removed by choosing the built-in one. Nothing indicates which rules are overridden and there is no reset-to-default control.
#Related
Rule cannot be found under the expected heading on the Rules page
Rules are grouped into four categories. Accessibility contains only Image alt text. Conten
In the standalone Capable Quality app, the Quality item never appears on any page byline, no matter
The byline's display condition requires a content property that nothing in the app ever wr
Permissions and access
The rest of this family.
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