Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
To prepare your Confluence installation for the future within your company, it is
good practice to think of a naming convention before starting to create groups. A
naming convention that worked for me looks like
<product>-<space>-<role>
. So
all space administrators in Confluence, working on the project
MyExample
would
be in the group
confluence-myexample-administrators
and all the users in
confluence-myexample-users
.
Adding users to groups
To assign users to groups, in order to determine their permissions, you have to be
a Confluence administrator. There are two ways of editing group memberships in
Confluence. They are as follows:
• From the user details screen
• From the group management screen
Editing group membership from the user details
screen
One way of editing the group membership of a particular user is via the user details
screen. This method only allows you to update one user at the time.
To edit a user's group membership, you have to go to the user details screen for
that user. We will dive into finding users in the next section, for now we use the
Administration Console.
1.
Browse to the Administration Console (
Administration
|
Confluence Admin
).
2.
Choose
Users
in the left-hand menu.
3.
Select
Show all users
to get an overview with all the users in Confluence.
4.
Click on the link on the username you want to edit.
5.
Select the
Edit Groups
link below the user's details, then the following screen
will be displayed:
