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With Refined, you can Connect connect users to categories and spaces. For example, on an intranet you can use this feature to show which users work on an HR project and which roles they have in this project.

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. You can add up to 200 users per category or space.

Info

This functionality is not related to any permissions, nor does it decide what content users can view. It is simply a way of displaying users who are organisationally connected to the category, for example to let other users know who to contact.

Add users and user groups

To connect users to a category:

  1. Go to the Refined Administration > Site Builder.

  2. Click a category’s Cogwheel > Connect users.

To connect users to a space:

  1. Go to a the space.

  2. Hover your mouse over the Space users box on the left-hand side and click the Pen icon that appears.

Add roles

When adding a user to a space or category, you can specify which role they have. For example, you can assign a user the role of project lead.

Modules

Use modules on a site or category home to show user information.

Users in Category module

Macros

Use macros on pages, user dashboards, and space layouts to show user information.

Permissions

Confluence administrators can manage users for each category and subcategories through the Site Builder view permissions. Any user included as a category admin can manage users for that category and any subcategory visible for that user. The category admin will access the connect users settings from the category layout editor home.

Manage users dialog

The manage users dialog is where an Confluence administrator, Category admin or Space admin (depending on if it's a space or a category) can manage roles and users linked to a certain category, subcategory or space. The dialog is available from the Site Builder, from the category dashboards, or from the space via the Users In Space macro.

Configuration options

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Configuration option

Settings

Parameters

Description

Available for

Category

If opened from the category dashboards, this option let's the admin switch between subcategories to select what category/subcategory to editSwitch between (sub)categories to select which one to edit.

Category

Roles

Adding a role expands two fields allowing the admin to Fill in the role a user has in this category or space (search for a user by full name or username, followed by a filed to define the Role title. Here the most popular role titles will be available as suggestions as well.).

Category/ Spacespace

User groups

Search for user groups defined in Confluence. Adding a group will link all containing users to this category/space.

Category/ Spacespace

Users

Search for users a user by full name or username and select them to link them to this category/space.

Category/ Spacespace

Visible

Toggle whether or not the linked users should be visible Select to show the connected users in the category menu’s dropdown . If not checked the list will not be available in the category dropdown. It might still display users in any Users In Category macrolist. Please note that this setting does not affect visibility in modules or macros.

Category

Only display roles

Enabling this will Select to only show users with assigned roles and not other users included through the users or user groups fields. The same who have roles assigned to them in the category menu’s dropdown list. This functionality is available for spaces through the parameters in the Users In Space macro.

Category

Use modules/macros to display connected users

Add the Users in Category

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Image Removedmodule to a site or category home to show user information.

Use macros on pages, user dashboards, and space layouts to show user information: