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Purpose

To prevent users from editing their profile.

Customisations are not supported

Note that Atlassian support does not cover customisations to Velocity files, such as those described on this page.

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All files should be located under <confluence-install>\confluence\users.

Solution

Removing the Save Profile Option.

To remove the option that allows people to select save changes to their profile, you will need to edit the Velocity template (.vm file) as described below.

  1. Locate your editmyprofile.vm file under

    <confluence-install>\confluence\users\editmyprofile.vm

  2. Edit this file with your favorite editor, such as Wordpad, Notepad or Notepad++ (recommended). The file looks something like this:

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    #macro (renderIfEdit $markup)
#trim()
#if ($editMode == true)
$!generalUtil.htmlEncode($markup)
#else
$!statusTextRenderer.render($markup)
#end
#end
#end

#set($viewingMyProfile = $personalInformationEntity.belongsTo($remoteUser))
<html>
<head>
<title>$generalUtil.htmlEncode($pageTitle)</title>
#requireResource("confluence.web.resources:aui-forms")
#requireResource("confluence.userstatus:userstatus-resources")
</head>

#if ($editMode)
#set($mode = "edit-profile-single")
#else
#set($mode = "edit-profile-three")
#end

#applyDecorator("root")
#decoratorParam("context" "profile")
#decoratorParam("mode" $mode)
#decoratorParam("helper" $action.helper)
#decoratorParam("infopanel-width" "200px")

<body>
#if($confirmPassOnEmailChange)
#requireResource("confluence.web.resources:edit-user-profile")
#parse("/users/password-dialog-templates.vm")
#end
<div class="profile-info #if(!$editMode)section-3#end">
#applyDecorator("form-aui")
#decoratorParam("formName" "editmyprofileform")
#decoratorParam("formId" "editmyprofileform")
#decoratorParam("submitAction" "$req.contextPath/users/doeditmyprofile.action")
#decoratorParam("editAction" "$req.contextPath/users/editmyprofile.action")
#decoratorParam("editMode" "$editMode")
#if(!$editMode && $viewingMyProfile)<a href="$req.contextPath/users/editmyprofile.action" class="edit-link">$action.getText("edit.name")</a>#end
<h2 class="first">$action.getText("profile.group.personal")</h2>
#form_xsrfToken()
<fieldset>
<input type="hidden" id="originalemail" value="$storedEmail"/>
<input type="hidden" id="passwordconfirmation" value="" name="passwordconfirmation"/>
#bodytag ("Component" "label='accessibility.profile.edit.personal'" "template='assistive.vm'" "theme='aui'")
#param ("type" "legend")
#end
#if (!$settingsManager.getGlobalSettings().isExternalUserManagement() && !$userAccessor.isReadOnly($user))
#bodytag( "TextField" "label='fullname.name'" "name='fullName'" "size='50'" "theme='aui'" )
#if($editMode) #param("required" "$action.getText('required.field')") #end
#end
#tag( "TextField" "label='email.name'" "name='email'" "size='50'" "theme='aui'" )
#else
#if($editMode)
<strong class="extra-info">$action.getText('user.fields.readonly')</strong>
#end
#tag( "TextField" "label='fullname.name'" "name='fullName'" "size='50'" "theme='aui'" "readonly=true" )
#tag( "TextField" "label='email.name'" "name='email'" "size='50'" "theme='aui'" "readonly=true" )
#end
#foreach ($key in $action.getUserDetailsKeys("personal"))
#bodytag( "TextField" "label='confluence.user.profile.$key'" "name='userparam-$key'" "value=getUserProperty('$key')" "size='50'" "theme='aui'" )
#param ("renderWiki" $statusTextRenderer)
#end
#end
#if($editMode)
#bodytag ("Component" "name='personalInformation'" "template='textarea.vm'" "theme='aui'")
#param ("label" "$action.getText('personal.info')")
#param ("rows" 8)
#param ("cols" 70)
#param ("renderWiki" $blockWikiStyleRenderer)
#end
#end
</fieldset>

<h2>$action.getText("profile.group.business")</h2>
<fieldset>
#bodytag ("Component" "label='accessibility.profile.edit.company'" "template='assistive.vm'" "theme='aui'")
#param ("type" "legend")
#end
#foreach ($key in $action.getUserDetailsKeys("business"))
#bodytag( "TextField" "label='confluence.user.profile.$key'" "name='userparam-$key'" "value=getUserProperty('$key')" "size='50'" "theme='aui'" )
#param ("renderWiki" $statusTextRenderer)
#end
#end

#if($editMode == true)
#parse ("/pages/includes/captcha-form-elements.vm")
#end

<!--
#if($viewingMyProfile == true && $editMode==true)
<br/>
#bodytag( "Submit" "theme='aui'" )
#param ("submitValue" "$action.getText('save.name')")
#end
#end
-->
<p><font size="3" color="red">You cannot change your Profile, this is disabled.<br>
If you need to change anything contact the Admin.<br></font></p>
</fieldset>
#end
</div>

#if(!$editMode)
<div class="profile-main section-2">
#if($action.userStatusPluginEnabled && $action.currentStatus && !$editMode)
<div>
<div class="status-block #if($viewingMyProfile) current-user-latest-status#end">
<span class="status-text">$statusTextRenderer.render($action.currentStatus.status)</span>
<div class="status-actions">
<ul>
<li><a id="view-$action.currentStatus.id" href="$req.contextPath$action.currentStatus.urlPath" title="$action.dateFormatter.formatDateTime($action.currentStatus.lastModificationDate)">$action.formatFriendlyDate($action.currentStatus.lastModificationDate)</a></li>
#if ($viewingMyProfile == true)<li><a id="clear-$action.currentStatus.id" href="$req.contextPath$action.currentStatus.clearPath_xsrfToken()">$action.getText("clear.name")</a></li>#end
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
#end

#applyDecorator("form-aui")
#decoratorParam("formName" "editmyprofileform")
#decoratorParam("submitAction" "$req.contextPath/users/doeditmyprofile.action")
#decoratorParam("editAction" "$req.contextPath/users/editmyprofile.action")
#decoratorParam("editMode" "$editMode")


#if($hasAboutMe)
<div class="profile-section" id="profile-about-me">
#if(!$editMode && $viewingMyProfile)<a href="$req.contextPath/users/editmyprofile.action" class="edit-link">$action.getText("edit.name")</a>#end
<h2>$action.getText("personal.info")</h2>
<div id="profile-about-me-content">$renderedAboutMe</div>
</div>
#end
<h2>$action.getText("activity.name")</h2>
#end
<div class="profile-section" id="profile-status-list">
$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{recently-updated:author=$action.user.name|max=10|theme=sidebar|spaces=*}")
</div>
#webPanelForLocation("atl.confluence.userprofile" $action.context)
</div>
#end

</body>
#end
</html>
  3. Save the file. You can reload your page and see the changes. There is no need to restart Confluence.

After following the above steps, you will have something like this:


And Something like this too:

Last modified on Dec 19, 2024

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