access rights

[Hester van Dort-de With]

How can I make sure every Alliander employee can view a new Space within Confluence?

[Max Foerster - K15t]

Hey @Hester van Dort-de With, welcome to the community! :)

Check out the Default Space Permissions page in your Confluence settings and configure it accordingly to ensure that every created space is open to all employees. You can find more information in the documentation: Assign space permissions 

This will not prevent a space administrator from changing the permissions afterward, but it's a first step. :) 

Best, Max

[Hester van Dort-de With]

Hi Max,

Thanks for your reply. I don't really understand what to do as I can't find a group that contains all Alliander employees.

[Jack Brickey]

Hi @Hester van Dort-de With , welcome to the community.

If you want to have an open Confluence where all spaces are accessible to all of your Confluence users then you would do that by using a default scheme and ensure that every user is added to a Group or Role that has the necessary permissions. I think it might be best to start with the following article as it does a good job of explaining how permissions work in Confluence. assign-space-permissions . You might also find this article  interest - set-up-public-access though I don't think that's what you need for this scenario.

[Jack Brickey]

Pulling the thread back into the original response (use reply rather than Answer)...

You would need to create that group and add the employees to it unless you are using an external directory (LDAP, Jira Access). The bottom line is that you need to define your employees into a group. You can set up the default search that when new users are added they're automatically added to a group. However you would want to be sure that that is indeed what do you want to happen. With that said it doesn't address year current users and you would need to add them to the group manually or through the APIs. 

Again, I highly recommend familiarizing yourself with how permissions work in confluence and the best resource for that is the Atlassian documentation, IMO.

[Hester van Dort-de With]

Hi Jack,

I don't see an option to create a group. Any ideas on how to do that?

[Jack Brickey]

Assuming you have Admin permission click on the Cog in upper right, select Groups under the Security section in the sidebar.