How can I find a relevant confluence group for setting page restrictions?

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This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Page Restrictions

Hi,

In a previous version of confluence I could work like this:

* use a wildcard to search for relevant confluence groups
* list the members of a candidate group (one group at a time)
* decide which group to use
* set the restrictions using this group.

With version 5.9.4 this is no longer possible:

* no wildcards are allowed any more
* There is auto-completion, but completion works only at the end of words, not at the beginning
* I should know the names of possibly relevant groups. But I simply don't.
* Example: I somehow know that there is a group with a company name in the middle. 
Using wildcard I could do this:
*COMPANY
and get some useful results.
Now this is no longer possible.
* => No possibility to set restrictions using groups any more

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Patrick

Patrick Schindl · Answer

Thanks for your reply.

But this does not answer my question.

My question is: How do I find out which relevant user groups exist?

In the meantime I have been told, that this is no longer possible anymore for users which are not admin user!

So you should do the following when setting up a space:

* Ask your admin to give you a list of the possibly relevant groups for your space
* Make sure with your admin that you will be informed about additional relevant groups for this space which may be created later.
* Create a page in your space with a list of these relevant groups
* On this page use the "usergroup" macro to create a list of all users for a specific group
* It is a good idea to wrap each macro in an expand-collapse macro.
* Make this page visible to all people in the space which may want to restrict pages to a specific group.

Efren Gonzalez · Answer

This may help.