Profile Visibility module for Confluence

Overview

This module allows you to manage the visibility of users' profiles in Confluence and helps to restrict access to personal information about users.

Read our guide to find out how to set required parameters quickly and properly.

Profile Visibility module page

Open the Confluence administration section using the settings button at the right top corner and choose any item in the dropdown menu. After that, you will see the sidebar — find the Data Protection and Security Toolkit section and the Profile Visibility module in it. Click on it, and you’ll see the page with settings.

Profile Visibility module page

How to manage profile visibility

Define will users be able to see profiles of other users or not. Here is an overview of settings that you can make:

Parameter Name

Default Value

Description

Parameter Name

Default Value

Description

What to do with user profiles

Enable Profile visibility for everyone

Choose one of the options:

  • Enable Profile visibility for everyone. By default, every Confluence user can view everyone’s profile.

  • Disable Profile visibility for everyone. Choose this option when it’s necessary to hide personal users' information from everyone. In this case, users can’t see profiles of each other.

  • Allow users to configure their own visibility rules. Choose this option if you want users to manage their profile’s visibility by themself. In this case, users will see the Data Protection and Security Toolkit section in their Confluence profile with profile visibility settings, where they can manage the Hide my profile from everyone parameter.

  • Make Profile visible for everyone in particular group. With this option, you can set the visibility of groups of users for each other.

 

Let’s take a look at the Make Profile visible for everyone in particular group option in detail.

Pick this option when it’s necessary to restrict access to users' profiles making them visible only for some users' groups. To do this, follow the steps:

  1. Define who will be able to view some profiles – select a group in the Target group field.

  2. Define what users' profiles will be visible for the target group – select groups in the Can view user profiles from groups field. You can select multiple user groups.

  3. Click on the Add button.

After that, you will see visibility settings that you made in the Current rules section:

“Make Profile visible for everyone in particular group” option

You can delete created visibility rules by the Delete button in the Actions column.

Use cases

Profile Visibility module is useful in different cases, for example:

  • restriction of access to users' profiles for the temporary employees

  • providing the ability to manage user’s profile visibility by the user

  • control of access to users' profiles for different departments within the company

 

Now, you are ready to set users' profiles visibility in your Confluence just with one click!