Security Setting

Setting Options

As an administrator of your confluence instance you can find the Security Settings of the Page Tree Creator, when you first click on the Gear Icon to open up the dropdown menu Confluence administration, then choose General Configuration, now in the left sidebar there will be a Page Tree Creator section, where you can click on Security Settings.

The Template Spaces from Version 7 or below are now spaces with Exempt view permission

Setting	Description	Default Value
User becomes admin	The user creating the space, automatically becomes space admin (Confluence standard).	true
Exempt Create Space Permission	The PTC Create Space Button can be used regardless of the global Create Space permission. When checked: The user can now create a space with the PTC Create Space Button regardless of the global Create Space permission The user still needs view permission on the source page The PTC Create Space Button permissions still apply The Space Permitted spaces configuration still applies	false
Space Permission	Exempt View Permission: If Yes, there is no view permission needed on the selected source space to copy pages from it Authorize Space Instantiation: If one or more spaces are selected to be authorized, then it is only possible to create spaces from these source spaces. If none is selected here then all spaces can be used as source to create new spaces from. By default all spaces are authorized spaces.	empty
Authorized Users	Users in this list are allowed to create new spaces from every source.	empty
Authorized Groups	Users in these groups are allowed to create new spaces from every source.	empty

Permission System

The Page Tree Creator permissions are built on top of the Confluence permission system.

Subject

Required Permission

Create Space

PTC Source View Permission for Root Page AND

PTC Source Space Authorization AND

PTC Create Space Permission

Create Pages

PTC Source View Permission for Root Page AND

PTC Target Space Permission

Copying of Child Pages

PTC Source View Permission for Child Page

Permission	Description
PTC Source View Permission	User has Confluence view permission for source space and for source page OR Space is PTC View Exemption Space
PTC Source Space Authorization	Space is PTC Authorized Space OR User is PTC Authorized User/Group OR Space Configurations is empty
PTC Create Space Permission	User has Confluence create space permission OR PTC Overwrite Create Space Permission = True
PTC Target Space Permission	User has Confluence add page permission for target space