# 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.".

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## Why it happens

Only Confluence administrators can save rule configuration. The page is fully interactive for everyone and only rejects at save time.

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## What to do

Ask a Confluence administrator to make the change.

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## 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      | \-               |

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## 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 | \-               |

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## 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.

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## Related

[Rule cannot be found under the expected heading on the Rules pageRules are grouped into four categories. Accessibility contains only Image alt text. Conten](https://help.gocapable.com/quality/rule-cannot-be-found-under-the-expected-heading-on-the-rules-page.html)

[In the standalone Capable Quality app, the Quality item never appears on any page byline, no matterThe byline's display condition requires a content property that nothing in the app ever wr](https://help.gocapable.com/quality/in-the-standalone-capable-quality-app-the-quality-item-never-appears-on-any-page-byline-no-matter.html)

[Permissions and accessThe rest of this family.](https://help.gocapable.com/quality/permissions-and-access.html)

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