About this section
The Space Groups/Users tab is where the majority of Group and Group membership configuration occurs. The groups displayed within the table match against the global Space Group Pattern configured by a System Admin.
The main display consists of Two (2) tables. The table on the left lists the Groups in the Space that match the Space Group Pattern, whilst the table on the right lists the users within a given group. To view users for a specific group, simply click on the group you want in the table.
Actions
The collection of actions buttons is found above the Groups and Users tables, as seen below.
The actions functions have been listed out below.
Creating a Group
To create a new group, select the Create Group button.
This will open the following dialogue screen.
The value entered will be used along with the Space Group Pattern to create a group with the given name. As seen below, the SPACE
prefix key will be used for creating the new group.
After pressing Create, the new group will be visible in the Groups table. By default, CSUM Cloud attempts to grant the Space Permission to allow the new group to view the current Space.
Renaming a Group
To rename a group, select the Group you want to rename in the Groups table, then press the Rename Group button.
This will open the following dialogue screen
After entering the desired name for the new Group, selecting Rename will remove the old Group from the table, along with adding the new renamed Group.
All group membership and Space Permissions will be carried across to the newly renamed group, whilst the old group is deleted.
Please Note: At present, all Space Permissions from the old Group are transferred except the Delete Mail permission.
If your Group being renamed has this Space Permission, you will need to manually add it to the renamed group under Confluence Space Permissions page.
Deleting a Group
To delete a group, select the Group you want to delete in the Groups table, then press the Delete Group button.
This will open the following dialogue screen
To confirm deletion of the selected Group, press Delete. This will delete the group from Confluence and the Group will no longer appear in CSUM Clouds group table.
Adding or Removing Users
After selecting a Group from the Groups table, the ability to Add or remove Users becomes available.
When adding/removing Users, there are two options:
Option 1 - Add/Remove members by selecting Users. This is the Users to Add field.
Option 2 - Add/Remove members by selecting Groups. This is the Groups to Add field. If you select Group(s), CSUM Cloud will operate against every user found within the selected Group(s).
Both of these can be done at the same time, or you can choose just one method.
After selecting at least one Users or Groups to add, confirm the operation with the Add or Remove button to operate against all selected Space Groups.
Why are my actions taking a long time?
The performance of bulk add/remove actions is currently limited due to Confluence Clouds REST API’s.
Currently, Atlassians API require a new request for every single user request to be added or removed from a group. When an instance has large Group memberships and numerous auto-join groups, add/remove operations are called one at a time.
When the API’s have been expanded, this will improve the performance problems for large scale add/remove operations.