Read Only Mode behavior

Owned by Robert Alexander Marshall
Dec 14, 2023
2 min read

Overview

When an administrator enables Read-Only Mode on Confluence Data Center, Comala Document Management is also affected, Some of Comala Document Management features, actions or endpoints are not allowed.

This policy follows Atlassian guidelines for read-only mode to provide consistency to this administrative mode.

Whenever Confluence is on read-only mode, a message bar similar to the following will be shown on the top of the window

Read Only Mode behavior

As a general rule during Read-Only Mode

  • Comala Document Management "view" actions are always allowed as long as the user has enough privileges in a similar way that during Read-Only Mode users can still navigate pages normally

  • Comala Document Management actions like approving pages or completing tasks are restricted

  • administration configuration for global workflows is allowed

Some Comala Document Management options will still be visible and clickable, for example, a user can open the workflow popup accessed through the workflow state breadcrumb on the page.

If a workflow action is attempted, for example a user attempts to submit and approval or rejection, an error will be displayed.

When a restricted action is not allowed during Read Only Mode, for example

  • changing the configuration on Space Tools>Document Management>Configuration

  • or adding or editing a page workflow

Confluence redirects the user to a page similar to

Read Only Mode must be enabled when upgrading the data in one or more existing spaces to use document activity using the Document Activity Data Upgrade Console after installing Comala Document Management 7.0+.