Permissions and data

Simply Dropdowns follows Confluence's own permissions and stores all of its data in your Confluence site.

Who can do what

Action	Who
Create, edit and delete global sets	Confluence admins
Create, edit and delete a space's sets	Admins of that space
See the sets	Everyone who can view the space (or use the app, for global sets)
Insert and configure dropdowns	Everyone who can edit the page
Change a dropdown's selection on the published page	Everyone who can edit the page
See a dropdown's selection	Everyone who can view the page

Where data is stored

All data stays in your Confluence site. The app runs on Atlassian's Forge platform and doesn't send data to any other service.

Data	Stored in
A space's dropdown sets	A property of that space (simply-dropdowns-sets)
Global dropdown sets	A private space the app creates for itself, named Simply Dropdowns (app data) (key SIMPLYDROPDOWNS)
A dropdown's set, own options and selection	The macro, inside the page body

Because selections are part of the page body, they're included in page versions and page copies, like any other page content.

Don't delete the app data space

The Simply Dropdowns (app data) space holds the global dropdown sets. Deleting it deletes them.

Permissions the app requests

Permission	Why
read:page:confluence	Read the page body to find the dropdown, and check whether you can edit the page
write:page:confluence	Save a selection into the page body
read:space:confluence	Read a space's dropdown sets and check whether you're a space admin
write:space:confluence	Save a space's dropdown sets, and create the app's private space for the global sets
read:confluence-user	Check whether you're a Confluence admin before changing global sets