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What does this feature do?

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  • Confluence administration > Users and Security > Custom Space User Management > 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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To add a delegated group click the Add Group button:

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A dialogue box will appear, once you’ve typed 3 letters the selection box will search confluence for groups. Many groups can be added, simply select a group then continue typing the next group. Click submit when you're finished.

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Circled above is an indicator that shows which delegated group is selected.

To Authorize a user make sure the delegated group is selected and press the Authorize button.

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A dialogue box will appear, here you can authorize confluence users and groups in one action, once you're happy with your selections press the submit button.

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As of CSUM 3.0.24 you can authorize users via a group import

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Once you’ve submitted your groups and users will appear in their appropriate tables:

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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 a user/group for Delegated Group management

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Now the de-authorize dialogue box will appear.

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The highlighted buttons fill/clear all groups (users as well) that can be useful when de-authorizing a large number of groups.

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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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Once clicked a dialogue box will open informing you of the authorisations that will also be removed:

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Click Remove to confirm the removal of the delegated group.