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Rumceisz

Hi All,

I would like to know which Confluence space does a group have access to? In Jira it can be check which project does a group access to. Is there a feature for Confluence too?

I need to know this because we manage some groups only for page restriction purpose so we would like to know which group gives space permission.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Rumi

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Andrew Frayling

Hi Rumi,

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the following user macro will loop through all of the Spaces in an installation and list the groups that have permission to view each Space.

## Macro title: Space Group Permissions
## Macro has a body: Y or N (N)
## Body processing: Selected body processing option
## Output: Selected output option
##
## Developed by: Andrew Frayling
## Date created: 27 Apr 2012
## Installed by: &lt;your name&gt;

## Macro to list all Spaces in an installation with the Groups that have permission to view each Space.
## @noparams

&lt;h1&gt;Space Group Permissions&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This installation contains the following Spaces and the listed groups have permission to view each Space.&lt;/p&gt;

#foreach ($space in $spaceManager.getAllSpaces())
  &lt;h2&gt;$space.getName()&lt;/h2&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;The following groups can view the $space.getName() Space.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;ul&gt;
  #foreach ($permission in $space.getPermissions())
    #if ($permission.isGroupPermission() &amp;&amp; $permission.getType() == "VIEWSPACE")
      &lt;li&gt;$permission.getGroup()&lt;/li&gt;
    #end
  #end
  &lt;/ul&gt;
#end

If you need to tweak it to see what other permissions a group has you can modifiy the following line:

#if ($permission.isGroupPermission() &amp;&amp; $permission.getType() == "VIEWSPACE")

using one of the following permissions:

VIEWSPACE
COMMENT
EDITSPACE
SETSPACEPERMISSIONS
REMOVEPAGE
REMOVECOMMENT
REMOVEBLOG
CREATEATTACHMENT
REMOVEATTACHMENT
EDITBLOG
EXPORTPAGE
EXPORTSPACE
REMOVEMAIL
SETPAGEPERMISSIONS

Hope that helps?

Andrew.

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Christian Czaia [Decadis AG]

I'd be interested in this, too. Maybe some SQL script we could use? Thanks in advance, Cheers Christian

Rumceisz

Hi Christian,

well we start hoping for a feature:)

I am convinced that this a wide range of claim here.

Regards,

Rumi

Rumceisz

If there is a script, ot would be also appropriate.

Thomas Schlegel

Hi Rumi,

great request :-)

I'm wondering why noone else has requested this before. Maybe you should open a feature request and post the link here, so everyone can vote for it.

Best regards

Thomas

David at David Simpson Apps

Have a look at the Confluence data model and create your own SQL statement. Blog about your results (or add them here as a comment)

Related: Here's a bunch of SQL scripts that Betsy Walker wrote up.

Andrew Frayling

Hi Rumi,

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the following user macro will loop through all of the Spaces in an installation and list the groups that have permission to view each Space.

## Macro title: Space Group Permissions
## Macro has a body: Y or N (N)
## Body processing: Selected body processing option
## Output: Selected output option
##
## Developed by: Andrew Frayling
## Date created: 27 Apr 2012
## Installed by: &lt;your name&gt;

## Macro to list all Spaces in an installation with the Groups that have permission to view each Space.
## @noparams

&lt;h1&gt;Space Group Permissions&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This installation contains the following Spaces and the listed groups have permission to view each Space.&lt;/p&gt;

#foreach ($space in $spaceManager.getAllSpaces())
  &lt;h2&gt;$space.getName()&lt;/h2&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;The following groups can view the $space.getName() Space.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;ul&gt;
  #foreach ($permission in $space.getPermissions())
    #if ($permission.isGroupPermission() &amp;&amp; $permission.getType() == "VIEWSPACE")
      &lt;li&gt;$permission.getGroup()&lt;/li&gt;
    #end
  #end
  &lt;/ul&gt;
#end

If you need to tweak it to see what other permissions a group has you can modifiy the following line:

#if ($permission.isGroupPermission() &amp;&amp; $permission.getType() == "VIEWSPACE")

using one of the following permissions:

VIEWSPACE
COMMENT
EDITSPACE
SETSPACEPERMISSIONS
REMOVEPAGE
REMOVECOMMENT
REMOVEBLOG
CREATEATTACHMENT
REMOVEATTACHMENT
EDITBLOG
EXPORTPAGE
EXPORTSPACE
REMOVEMAIL
SETPAGEPERMISSIONS

Hope that helps?

Andrew.

Rumceisz

Hi Andrew,

I created this macro to our Confluence, but where can we get the results? Is there a display where I can get the result? Or have to be added a page?

Andrew Frayling

Hi Rumi,

If you've created a user macro you should be able to see the results by using {your macro name} on any standard page in Confluence, e.g. {spacegroups}

You may want to create a dedicated page for it as the output is going to be lengthy if you have a lot of Spaces and Groups, but you should be able to use the macro anywhere.

Does that help?

Andrew.

Rumceisz

Hi Andrew,

many thanks for the macro, it works.

Another question: how should be changed the script to list it reverse? I mean not by list the spaces one by one, but the groups in ascending order and list which space(s) has the group permission?

Like this:

group1

has permission (at least viewonly) to the following spaces:

SpaceA

SpaceB

.....

group2

has permission (at least viewonly) to the following spaces:

SpaceC

SpaceA

etc.

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