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Searching the People Directory

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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 via external user management who have never logged in.

Viewing the People Directory

To go to the People Directory, click the 'People Directory' link on the Dashboard, next to the following icon :
The Confluence administrator can hide the People Directory. If it is hidden, you will not see the link on the Dashboard.

Screenshot: The People directory



The 'Personal Space' icon indicates that the person has set up a personal space.

  • If the 'Personal Space' icon appears beneath a person's name, clicking that person's name (or their picture) will take you to their personal space.
  • If the 'Personal Space' icon does not appear beneath a person's name, clicking that person's name (or their picture) will display their user profile.

Searching for People

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

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

Marking People as Favourite

The top part of the People Directory screen displays any people that you have nominated as your favourites.

  • To add a person to your Favourite People, click the grey star icon
  • To remove a person from your Favourite People, click the yellow star icon

Once you have added a person to your Favourite People, their personal space (if they have one) will be added to your list of favourite spaces on the Dashboard.

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
Uploading a Profile Picture

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  1. Dec 13, 2006

    Garnet R. Chaney says:

    I need to migrate all the spaces from one Confluence to another active instance ...

    I need to migrate all the spaces from one Confluence to another active instance of Confluence. I need an easy way to find all the users who created personal spaces so I can export them from the one system, and restore them on the other.

    1. Jan 01, 2007

      Charles Miller says:

      You could do that pretty easily by going to the database directly: {{select from...

      You could do that pretty easily by going to the database directly: select * from SPACE where SPACETYPE = 'personal'

  2. Jan 04, 2007

    na says:

    Take a look here:
  3. Jan 12, 2007

    Gary Pullis says:

    Is there a macro for this? We have a custom page for our dashboard.

    Is there a macro for this? We have a custom page for our dashboard.

    1. Feb 08, 2007

      Agnes Ro says:

      No, we don't have a macro but you can put the following link in your custom page...

      No, we don't have a macro but you can put the following link in your custom page.

      <img src="$req.contextPath/images/icons/people_directory_32.gif" align='absmiddle' height="32" width="32"> <b><a href="$req.contextPath/peopledirectory.action"> $action.getText("people.directory.title")</a></b>

  4. Jun 17, 2007

    Chris Greenlee says:

    We've just upgraded to Confluence 2.5 (from 2.2 or so), and I've noticed that no...

    We've just upgraded to Confluence 2.5 (from 2.2 or so), and I've noticed that none of our users appear in the People Directory save for those I've added since the upgrade.  Is there a way to manually add our pre-existing users?

    1. Jun 18, 2007

      Ivan Benko says:

      Could you please open a support request

      Could you please open a support request and attach set of your logs and the error that you are seeing? Also please explain how exactly did you perform the upgrade? Do you see the previous users in the list or just the newly added ones? Did you perform manual reindexing?

    2. Jun 21, 2007

      Brian Lee says:

      I'm having a similar issue, I updated from 2.2.10 and the page is just blank.&nb...

      I'm having a similar issue, I updated from 2.2.10 and the page is just blank.  Not even new users appear.  I've opened a support request.  I wonder if this is a common issue for upgrades from 2.2 or earlier?

  5. Jun 21, 2007

    zhang, xia says:

    We had same issue a month ago.&nbsp; People directory disappear from confluence....

    We had same issue a month ago.  People directory disappear from confluence.  There was no error message when directly access url for people directory.  Later on, we finally found builder theme was responsible for the issue.  We pointed this out to the vendor.  After the vednor of builder theme delivered a new jar file, we started to see people directory. Hope this helps.

  6. Jul 18, 2007

    Stefan says:

    After an update, just create a new index in the Confluence Administration.

    After an update, just create a new index in the Confluence Administration.

  7. Nov 08, 2007

    David Aldridge says:

    The People Directory behaves thusly, as mentioned above: &nbsp;If the 'Personal...

    The People Directory behaves thusly, as mentioned above:

    •  If the 'Personal Space' icon appears beneath a person's name, clicking that person's name (or their picture) will take you to their personal space.
    •  If the 'Personal Space' icon does not appear beneath a person's name, clicking that person's name (or their picture) will display their user profile.

    Is there any way (I'm OK with hand-editing theme files, XSL transforms run to generate the page content - whatever) to modify this behavior such that clicking on the picture/thumb or name link always/only takes you to the "user profile", and only by clicking on the "personal space" icon do you get to the personal space?  Or alternatively, add a v-card style icon next to the existing one that takes you do the user profile?

    Currently, having a personal space makes it difficult for others to view the user profile, the latter of which is actually much more important for my installation.

    Cheers,

    David

    1. Nov 09, 2007

      Tony Cheah Tong Nyee says:

      Hi David, You may be interested to look at the {{personthumbnail.vm}} file avai...

      Hi David,

      You may be interested to look at the person-thumbnail.vm file available in the confluence\template\custom directory to customized the behavior of the link in the People Directory page. It is recommended to ensure that you have make a backup copy of the file before you proceed with the customization.

      Hope the information helps.

      Cheers,
      Tony

  8. Dec 02, 2007

    Nick Bruse says:

    Hi All, This may be helpful to people who are trying to create a custom search...

    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.

    {html}
    <FORM name="people_search" onsubmit="if (document.people_search.search_text.value != '')location='http://YOURSERVER_ROOT/dopeopledirectorysearch.action?searchQueryBean.queryString='+document.people_search.search_text.value;return false"><INPUT input name="search_text" size="15"></INPUT> <INPUT onclick="if (document.people_search.search_text.value != '')location='http://YOURSERVER_ROOT/dopeopledirectorysearch.action?searchQueryBean.queryString='+document.people_search.search_text.value;" type="button" value="Search Staff"></INPUT> </FORM>{html}

    Cheers
    Nick

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