Adding or Removing Users in Groups
If you are a Confluence Administrator, you can add users and groups, and assign users to groups, in order to determine their permissions.
This page tells you how to add a user to a group or remove a user from a group. For an overview of users and groups, please refer to Confluence Groups and Manage Users.
You can edit group membership in two places:
- From the group management screen
- From the user management screen for a particular user
Add and remove members via group management
This is the recommended method. It allows you to manage the group membership for a number of users at the same time.
To add members to a group:
- Choose the cog icon
, then choose General Configuration under Confluence Administration - Choose Groups in the left-hand panel
- Choose the group to which you want to add users
- Choose Add Members
- Type the username(s) of the people you want to add to the group
- If you want to add more than one member, separate the usernames with commas
- You can also search for and select users by choosing the search icon
- Choose Add to add the member(s) to the group
To remove members from a group:
- Choose the cog icon , then choose General Configuration under Confluence Administration
- Choose Groups in the left-hand panel
- Choose the group from which you want to remove the user
- Choose the Delete user from group icon next to the user whose group membership you want to remove
Screenshot: Adding members
Edit group membership via user management
You can update a user's group membership from the user management screen. This functionality allows you to update one user at a time.
To add a user to a group or remove a user from a group:
- Go to the user management screen for the user concerned. There are two ways to do this:
- Either,
- Go to the user's Profile and choose Administer User on the user's profile screen.
- Or, Choose the cog icon , then choose General Configuration under Confluence Administration
- Choose Users in the left-hand panel
- Choose Show all users, or search for a specific user by entering all or part of their username, full name or email address
- Choose the username you want to edit
- Either,
- Choose Edit Groups
- Select the group(s) for this user
To remove a user from a group, remove the tick mark in the relevant check box.
Screenshot: Editing a user's groups
- The order of the directories is the order in which they will be searched for users and groups.
- Changes to users and groups will be made only in the first directory where the application has permission to make changes.