Confluence profiles - can you restrict viewing from some users?

[Tim Milner]

Hi. Got a query about Confluence.

We want to set up some spaces in our Confluence instance for external staff that we work with. We will restrict the rest of the platform from them, so they will only be able to see the pages we want them to. However, one concern raised is that they will always be able to view all users' profiles. This will allow them to see private information such as e-mails, and job titles. Is there any way that we would be able to restrict this profile area from these external users, so that they can only see the space(s) we permit them to, but not any user profiles? Thanks, Tim

[SarahA · Accepted solution]

Hallo Tim

Adding to Joseph's answer: the email addresses need not be visible to Confluence users. The Confluence administrator can configure Confluence to mask the email addresses, or make them visible to administrators only. Here's the documentation:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/User+Email+Visibility

I hope this helps a little with the problem.

Cheers, Sarah

[Tim Milner]

Thanks Sarah, that may well be an effective workaround solution.

Tim

[Joe Clark]

Hi Tim,

Sorry to say that the "view user profiles" permission can currently only be turned on/off for Anonymous users.

There is an open feature request to implement modifying permissions for user profile viewing: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1134

Joe.

[Tim Milner]

Thanks for your answer, Joe. I'll certainly add my requst to that open feature request.

Tim