Platform notice: Server and Data Center only. This article only applies to Atlassian products on the server and data center platforms.

Purpose

Confluence does not have a built in way to hide the People Directory from a group. You might not want their staff information (position, email, etc) to be visible to all Confluence users, for example in a publicly accessible instance of Confluence.

Solution

1. If you are using the Default Confluence Theme:
   1. Go to Confluence Admin >> Layout >> Main Layout >> Edit

   2. Add the code below before the </head> tag. Replace the <group_name> in the code with the name of the group that you which you want to to hide the people directory from.

      #if ($userAccessor.hasMembership('<group_name>', $helper.action.remoteUser.name))
      <style type="text/css">
      #people-directory-link
      {
      display:none !important;
      }
      </style>
      #end
      

2. If you are using the Documentation Theme:
   1. Shutdown your Confluence
   2. Go to <CONF-INSTALL>/confluence/WEB-INF/atlassian-bundled-plugins
   3. Make a backup of the doctheme-x.x.x.jar.
   4. Create a new temporary folder.
   5. Extract the doctheme-x.x.x.jar into the temporary folder. 
      • You can use common archiving tools, such as WinRAR or via the command line, to extract the jar
   6. Open the main.vmd file with from the following directory <TEMPORARY_FOLDER>/doctheme/decorators/

   7. Add the following code before the </head> tag in the file. Replace the <group_name> in the code with the name of the group which you want to to hide the people directory from. 

      #if ($userAccessor.hasMembership('<group_name>', $helper.action.remoteUser.name))
      <style type="text/css">
      #people-directory-link
      {
      display:none !important;
      }
      </style>
      #end

   8. Open the doctheme-x.x.x.jar with archiving tools such as winrar or winzip 

   9. Add the main.vmd into the doctheme-x.x.x.jar to the path /doctheme/decorators/

   10. Replace the old jar in the <CONF-INSTALL>/confluence/WEB-INF/atlassian-bundled-plugins with the modified doctheme-x.x.x.jar
   11. Restart Confluence.