Space Membership

Question

My company is using Confluence as our intranet with the help of the Brikit theme and Linchpin profiles. We have spaces corresponding with the physical location and/or department of our users. We also have nationwide spaces that we are calling Communities which are meant to be national and optional for folks to have access to. We would like a way to show membership to these communities. They are open for everyone to view and I've looked at making it so that the user can request access to edit and add them to a group and have the members of that group listed in the community, but what we were really hoping for was a way to show that the user is a member of that community in their profile.

The one glaring issue I see is that all users have access to at least a dozen spaces so we don't want to list the spaces that everybody has access to, just the communities that they have requested membership to. Has anyone seen something like this or know of a similar request?

Thanks,

April

aprilengland · Answer

Hi Ann,

Thanks for the response, I have opened a dialog with Seibert-Media to see if this is something that could be done. I was really hoping there might be an add-on or user macro that I just haven't been able to find that can be configured within spaces to list all spaces being watched by a user where the label = community.

What would be really cool is if all of our users could view the space but only "Members" of the space could add pages or edit and it would be awesome to have a membership sign up option then have that membership listed in the profile as well.

So for example, if we had a community called the Lollipop Guild everybody would be able to view the content, but to add content you'd need to request membership (which could have a workflow attached) and then once you have it you get a badge on your profile labeling you a member of the "Lollipop Guild" and you'd have special access to that space. I haven't seen anything like that yet though. :(

Thanks again,

April

AnnWorley · Answer

Hi April,

You mentioned you are using  Linchpin User Profiles. It is not an Atlassian product so I am not an expert, but the research I did seemed to indicate that you can set up custom fields in the user profiles. Could these be used to show the community memberships as required? Please check out LUP - Profile field types and special fields 2.8 and let us know if that fits your use case.

Thanks,

Ann