What does it mean when a group is marked "DEFAULT ACCESS GROUP"?

[Peter Thorpe]

I can see that some groups in our confluence site are marked "DEFAULT ACCESS GROUP".
I am curious about what making a group default access means, for that group. What effect does it have on the members of the group?

I can't find anything definitive online.

[Benjamin · Accepted solution]

Hi @Peter Thorpe ,

The default access group is basically the group that a user will added to by default for access to whichever product it has access to. If you look at the default access groups, each one is tied to a specific Atlassian product.

Here's a documentation on it:

https://support.atlassian.com/user-management/docs/create-and-update-groups/

Hope this helps.

-Ben 

[Peter Thorpe]

Thanks very much for the response Ben,

I am trying to understand the difference between a group that is labelled as default and one that is not. Is it an important difference?

Kind regards

Peter

[Benjamin]

There's only that one difference. Those with the default access are added as default to those groups once a user gets invite to use the products on the site. For example, if you invite a user to access the confluence app on your site, they will be added to the confluence-user group to gain access to the site. 

Groups that don't use the labels are primarily use for permission within the app rather than product access. For example, adding group A to project A in Jira to be able to browse the project issue.

-Ben