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The people directory displays a list of people who use your Confluence site.

The people directory includes anybody who has logged into Confluence or who has had a user account created for them in Confluence. The people directory does not include users who can log into Confluence using external user management if they have never yet logged in.

Viewing the People Directory

Choose Browse > People Directory.

(info) The Confluence administrator can hide the people directory. If it is hidden, you will not see the People Directory link in the Browse menu.

Screenshot: The People Directory


Searching for People

To search for a particular person, type their first name and/or last name into the search box and click Search.

  • To search everyone who uses your Confluence site, click All People.
  • To search just those people who have set up a personal space, click People with Personal Spaces.

Following People's Activities

Confluence's network features allow you to 'follow' (that is, keep track of) other people's activities throughout a Confluence site. For more information, please refer to Network Overview. Using the hover profile feature, the people directory is a convenient area from which you can start following other people throughout your Confluence site.

  • To start following another person's activities, move your mouse over a user's name or profile picture and in their hover profile popup, click Follow.
  • To stop following another person's activities, move your mouse over a user's name or profile picture and in their hover profile popup, click Stop Following.

Once you start following another person, their activities will start appearing in your network view.

People Directory provides hCard microformat


The people directory uses the hCard microformat for simple integration with a variety of microformat-enabled tools. hCard is an open data format for representing people, companies, organisations, and places. Read more about microformats and hCard.

Related Topics

Setting up your Personal Space
Editing your User Profile
Choosing a Profile Picture

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  1. Dec 02, 2007

    Nick Bruse

    Hi All,

    This may be helpful to people who are trying to create a custom search box for the people directory. Its basically a bit of a hack, using a form and constructing a url that works with the dopeopledirectorysearch.action, but seems to work nicely. If anyone has any refinements. Please let me know.

    Cheers
    Nick

    1. Feb 02, 2009

      Anonymous

      Instead of YOURSERVER_ROOT, you can use $req.contextPath

      Below is another way (you can also turn it into a usermacro as well):

  2. Jul 29, 2008

    Anonymous

    I'm looking for a macro that is similar to the "People with Personal Spaces" link.
    Whereas the macro should generate a list of E-Mail addresses instead of the information the people directory shows.

    We are planning to set up a newsletter service for active confluence users (e.g. if confluence is down for maintenance, ...)
    As we are using LDAP and only the active users need to be informed, we thought getting those with a personal space should
    filter out the relevant users.

    Is there already a solution for this thing?

    Thomas

    1. Jun 06, 2011

      Fennie Ng

      Hi,

      This feature is not implemented. You may want to raise a feature request at

      Meanwhile, you may want to post a question to the Confluence development topics on Atlassian Answers as there might be other user/developers who have already implemented it and should be able to share their ideas with you.

      Regards,
      Fennie

  3. Aug 24, 2008

    Anonymous

    Is there anyway to hide a particular user in the people directory, i.e. the admin user?

    Thanks 

    1. Aug 28, 2008

      Azwandi Mohd Aris [Atlassian]

      Hi there,

      I would suggest you to lodge an improvement request at http://jira.atlassian.com since this feature is not yet available in Confluence. Thanks.

      Cheers,
      Azwandi

  4. Nov 14, 2008

    Mat Griffin

    Hello,

    is there a way to search from the People page the details a user might put in the "Information about me:" box.

    (It seems you can search this information from a Space but not from the People page!)

    Thanks

    1. Nov 17, 2008

      Azwandi Mohd Aris [Atlassian]

      Hi Mat,

      The people directory search is only for searching the name of the users. There is, however, an ongoing feature request that you can refer to:

      Remember to cast your vote and have a read on this!

      Cheers,
      Azwandi

  5. May 08, 2009

    Bridget Maloney

    Is there any way to hide people in the people directory (and the search)?  It'd be even better if I can hide them according to group membership.

    Thanks!

    -Bridget

    1. May 19, 2009

      Zed Yap [Atlassian]

      Hi Bridget,

      As far I know, the feature requested is not available yet. However, I found a feature request which might full fill your
      requirement:

      Please add your comments to the discussion, vote on it and add yourself as a watcher for future updates. Also, please bear in mind the following document on how we schedule features for inclusion in our products: Implementation of New Features and Improvements.

      If the feature request above does not satisfy your requirement, you might want to raise this feature in JIRA

      Hope that helps.
      Best rgds,
      Zed

  6. Jul 22, 2009

    Sean Winter

    Is there any way to have users be listed alphabetically by last name? This would be the expected behaviour. Thanks

    1. Jul 28, 2009

      Azwandi Mohd Aris [Atlassian]

      Hi, Sean. I am afraid that this is not possible with the current feature set. Confluence has no knowledge about one's last name. Hence, the people directory sorts the users via their full name. If you are keen on this feature, feel free to raise a request request at http://jira.atlassian.com

  7. Sep 16, 2009

    Anonymous

    Is there a way to disable the People Directory only for a Group?

    1. Sep 27, 2009

      Zed Yap [Atlassian]

      Hi

      Is there a way to disable the People Directory only for a Group?

      As far as I know, the feature requested is not available yet. However, I found a feature request which might be closest to your requirement:

      Please add your comments to the discussion, vote on it and add yourself as a watcher for future updates. Also, please bear in mind the following document on how we schedule features for inclusion in our products: Implementation of New Features and Improvements.

      Hope that helps,
      Best rgds,
      ZEd

  8. Feb 21, 2010

    Todd Day

    I'm on 3.1.1 with an LDAP connection and the Confluence Administrator is showing up three separate times in the People Directory

    1. Feb 23, 2010

      Sashidaran Jayaraman [Atlassian]

      Hi Todd,

      In order to troubleshoot this issue, please glance through this documentation , particularly this one. Please try to perform the troubleshooting steps and the resolution suggested. If problem persists, I would recommend you to raise a support ticket to https://support.atlassian.com, so that your issue can be further investigated.

      Cheers
      JSashi

      1. Feb 23, 2010

        Todd Day

        Thanks for the reply.  Rebuilding the Search Index did the trick!

  9. Apr 14, 2010

    Martin Taylor

    I'd like to put lists of people on various project Wiki pages in the same format as the People Directory (i.e. complete with picture, email link, home page link, etc.).  Is there a way to do this in Confluence?

  10. Nov 23, 2010

    Christopher Taleck

    The People Directory does not include users who can log into Confluence via external user management who have never logged in.

    I am using Confluence 3.4 with AD integration and the People Directory is currently listing all users in my AD store even those who have never logged in. I have "ConfluenceGroupJoiningAuthenticator" set in the seraph-config.xml file.

    What would be the correct settings to show only logged in users under the All People tab and still allow the automatic addition to the "confluence-uses" group?

  11. Jan 13, 2012

    Anonymous

    Is it possible to change the default People Directory output? At present it shows their picture, name and email. Could I add their phone number to that?