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Choose to manage Confluence's users and groups inside Confluence or in a Jira application, such as Jira Software or Jira Service Management:
Manage users and groups in Confluence...
Choose this option if you're happy to manage users in Confluence, or don't have a Jira application installed.
Good to know:
- If you do plan to manage users in a Jira application, but have not yet installed it, we recommend installing Jira first, and then returning to the Confluence setup.
- You can add external user management (for example LDAP, Crowd or Jira) later if you choose.
Connect to Jira...
Choose this option if you have a Jira application installed and want to manage users across both applications.
Good to know:
- This is a quick way of setting up your Jira integration with the most common options.
- It will configure a Jira user directory for Confluence, and set up application links between Jira and Confluence for easy sharing of data.
- You'll be able to specify exactly which groups in your Jira app should also be allowed to log in to Confluence. Your license tiers do not need to be the same for each application.
- You'll need either Jira 4.3 or later, Jira Core 7.0 or later, Jira Software 7.0 or later, or Jira Service Management 3.0 or later.
In the setup wizard:
Jira Base URL – the address of your Jira server, such as
http://www.example.com:8080/jira/orhttp://jira.example.com/- Jira Administrator Login – this is the username and password of a user account that has the Jira System Administrator global permission in your Jira application. Confluence will also use this username and password to create a local administrator account which will let you access Confluence if Jira is unavailable. Note that this single account is stored in Confluence's internal user directory, so if you change the password in Jira, it will not automatically update in Confluence.
- Confluence Base URL – this is the URL Jira will use to access your Confluence server. The URL you give here overrides the base URL specified in Confluence, for the purposes of connecting to the Jira application.
- User Groups – these are the Jira groups whose members should be allowed to use Confluence. Members of these groups will get the 'Can use' permission for Confluence, and will be counted in your Confluence license. The default user group name differs depending on your Jira version:
- Jira 6.4 and earlier:
jira-users. - Jira Software 7.x and later:
jira-software-users - Jira Core 7.x and later:
jira-core-users - Jira Service Management (formerly Jira Service Desk) 3.x and later:
jira-servicedesk-users
- Jira 6.4 and earlier:
- Admin Groups – provide one or more Jira groups whose members should have administrative access to Confluence. The default group is
jira-administrators. These groups will get the system administrator and Confluence administrator global permissions in Confluence.
Last modified on Dec 15, 2020
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