Best Practices for Using Confluence

Pages inherit the permission settings of parent pages. It is best practice to always create your new pages as a “child page” of your existing page. That way your new page will inherit the same permission settings. For example, if you are creating a new Meeting Agenda for the E-Resources Subcommittee, you should navigate to the E-Resources Subcommittee page in the left hand navigation menu and use the plus sign next to the Subcommittee title in the menu to create a new child page.

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You can publish changes to a page without notifying watchers by hovering over the More actions tool and selecting “Publish without notifying watchers”

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Committee and Subcommittee Chairs are directed to include all work of the committee in the Committee Pages assigned to them in Confluence. This includes meeting minutes, working documents and links to any external documentation the committee needs to do its work. Meeting schedules and format will be at the discretion of the Chair.

To restrict who can view or edit a page or blog post:

1. Choose the Restrictions  icon at the top of the page.

2. Choose whether you just want to limit only who can Edit, or who can View and / or Edit.

3. Enter users or groups then click Add to add them to the list. 
   If you chose Viewing and Editing restricted you can further specify for each person or group whether they can edit or just view the page. 

4. Apply the restrictions.

Learn more: Page restrictions | Confluence Data Center 9.3 | Atlassian Documentation

You can use the Share option in Confluence to email people a link to your page or blog post. This is a great way to invite your team to collaborate or to share information with a large group of people.

When you use this Share option, you can share your document by email directly from Confluence, or copy the link to your document and share it via your own email or other messaging tool.

Learn more: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/share-a-page-or-blog-post/