Administrating users

We are now able to add users and groups to Confluence, and administer group memberships. There will be a point where we have to look up a user, change his or her details, or send a new password.

Searching for users

When we want to add users to certain groups, spaces, or do anything that has to do with permissions, we have the option to search for users. Whenever you are able to search for users within Confluence, a magnifying glass icon will be shown. When we click on this icon, a new pop up will be shown, giving us the following two options to search for users:

  • Simple search
  • Membership search

Note

Note that the search is not case sensitive; it doesn't make a difference if you type either upper- or lowercase text. Wildcards are ...

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