What does this feature do?

CSUM gives system admins the ability to nominate arbitrary groups to be managed through CSUM by Space Admins. The admin configuration allows users and groups to be ‘authorized’ to manage a given group.

Navigating to Delegated Group

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As a system admin you can delegate the management of groups to users, either by direct authorization or by authorizing a group of usersper-user or group authorization. To navigate to this area, go to:

• Confluence administration > Users and Security > Custom Space

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• User Management > Delegated Group Config

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Step 1

System admins use Confluence administration which can accessed by via the cog in the top right of the tool bar

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The Users and Security which can be found in the list to the left of the confluence administration page.

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Further down the list you can find the Users and Security heading

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Step 2

In the Custom Space User Management configuration use the navigation bar to select Delegated Group Config

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Authorize a user/group for Delegated Group management

This is the view of the delegated group config, the table on the left stores groups that you would like other users/groups to manage. The table on the right shows users and groups that are authorized to manage a group, this table will populate only when a delegated group is selected on the left.

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In this example the user “Sir Admin” and all the users in the group “animals” are now able to add and remove users from the group “colours”. Such management can be done from Space > Space tools > Custom Space User Management > Delegated Groups. The instructions for how to do this can be found here

Removing

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a user/group for Delegated Group management

To remove the authorization of any users or groups you need to select the delegated group, then you can either select the users and groups (these tables feature multi select) or don't and fill in the users/groups manually in the dialogue box afterwards, then press the ‘De-authorize’ button.

Now the de-authorize dialogue box will appear.

The
red ring surrounds the fill all groups and highlighted buttons fill/clear all
groups buttons, these groups (users as well) that can be useful when de-authorizing a large
number of groups. There are matching buttons for users as well.

When you’re happy with your selection(s) press the De-authorize Deauthorize button.

Removing a delegated group

You can only remove one delegated group at a time, just select the group to remove and press the remove group button.

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Click Remove to confirm the removal of the delegated group.

Adding users to a delegated group

Below you will learn how to add and remove users from a delegated group.

Adding a user to a delegated group is straight forward. Head to Space > Space Tools > Custom Space User Management > Delegated Groups.

When you visit the page you will see this:

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To add a user to a delegated group you need to select a delegated group from the table on the left. Then press the Add User button:

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This will open a dialogue box where you’ll need to select the delegated group(s) involved if you haven’t already and select a number of users and click Add when you’re done.

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The user(s) will now appear in the table on the right and they will also be added to that group in confluence.

Removing users from delegated groups

To remove a user from a delegated group you first need to select a delegated group and either click the Remove User button or select the users from the table then click the remove user button.

This will open a dialogue where you can select users. Once your done click the Remove button.

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