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How to merge users in Confluence?

Taylor Zavala

Last night some users were re-named in AD so now the user has two accounts within the user directory (Microsoft AD read only, with Local Groups) in Confluence 4.3.5. Is there a way to merge the old account with the new account? For example, bphillips was renamed to brucephillips in AD. Now, both accounts exist in Confluence's user directory. I would like all the old content associated with the bphillips user to be associated with brucephillips.

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J. Caldwell

Take a look at this plugin:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.onresolve.confluence.scripting.script-runner

It is fantastic for Jira, I haven't used it for Confluence before. The rename a user functionality has the option to merge them into another.

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Davin Studer

5.3 added the ability to change a user's username, but merging after the fact ... dunno.

J. Caldwell

Take a look at this plugin:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.onresolve.confluence.scripting.script-runner

It is fantastic for Jira, I haven't used it for Confluence before. The rename a user functionality has the option to merge them into another.

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

I tried but is not work on the Confluence 5.4.3

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

Did you resolved this issue?

Justin Leader6

nope

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

Why?

Patrick Richert

And now with recent upgrades, the script runner plugin no longer has merge capabilities. How can we merge user names?

Esther Wien

The following is a re-name and migrate method we use for Confluence and JIRA:

Let's say you have a user with the username 'alice' in your local directory. Now you add an LDAP which contains a NEW user 'bob' and you want to migrate alice to bob. Follow these steps:

1. Make sure your local directory has priority over the LDAP. (local dir is positioned above the LDAP in the 'User Directories' admin screen)

2. rename 'alice' to 'bob'

3. Move LDAP to have priority over your local directory.

Result: The new 'bob' has taken over all the content of the user previously known as 'alice'.

This method has been tested when migrating from Local to AD and from AD to another AD.

Warning: This only works when migrating content to a new user. So far I have not yet been able to merge two existing (active) users with this method. I tested this and it results in the content of the 'lower priority'-user to be of 'Unknown User'.

Tobias Montagna

I used the SQL commands here to migrate a users activity and content to another user:

https://gist.github.com/tobiasmh/3e5aa4f7a37d9e834647

Esther Wien

Cool, thanks! I had a hard time figuring out where the username was used to register activity. This cleared things up.

Nicolas Esteves

Hello Tobias, Thank you for the link! This would be useful. Did you get some feedbacks about those queries? On which version did you try them? Regards, Nicolas.

Tobias Montagna

I ran these on a production Confluence instance running 5.8.4

Maximilian Klingmann

By far the best answer here!

Used this exact method to merge users from remote LDAP to Crowd.

1. Users were in Confluence via LDAP Directory

2. Added User with same username in Crowd

3. Connected Crowd with Confluence

4. Set LDAP Directory as first prio

5. Synchronized Crowd Users

6. Tested Crowd User Login (dry-run in "User Directories")

7. Moved Crowd to first prio

8. Disabled LDAP

9. Changed Username in Crowd to E-Mail (since we wanted email to be login from now on)

10. Synchronized Crowd Directory again

9. Dance in Joy, as everything the LDAP user edited is now shown to be edited by the Crowd User!

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