Documentation for Crowd 1.0. Documentation for other versions of Crowd is available too.

If you have already been using Atlassian Confluence, and are now configuring Confluence as a Crowd application, you will probably want to import your existing Confluence users and groups into a Crowd directory.

Before you begin:

Ensure that your Confluence instance has the RPC Plugin enabled. (For information on enabling plugins, see the Confluence Administrator's Guide.)

Note regarding passwords: because users' passwords are encrypted in Confluence's database, they will not be copied across to Crowd.

To import users and groups from Atlassian Confluence into a Crowd directory,

  1. Login to the Crowd Administration Console.
  2. Click the 'Principals' link in the top navigation bar.
  3. This will display the Principal Browser. Click the 'Import Users' link.
  4. This will display the 'Import Type' screen. Click the 'Confluence' button.
  5. This will display the 'Options' screen. Complete the fields as follows:
    • 'Directory' — select the directory that is mapped to the Confluence application.
    • 'Confluence URL' — type the URL of your Confluence instance.
    • 'Username' — type the Confluence user ID that Crowd will use to login to your Confluence instance. Note that this user ID should have Confluence administration rights.
    • 'Password' — type the password of the Confluence user ID that Crowd will use to login to your Confluence instance.
  6. Click the 'Continue' button to import the users from your Confluence instance into your Crowd directory.
  7. The 'Status' screen will be displayed, showing how many users and groups have been imported into your Crowd directory.
  8. Click the 'Principals' button to view and manage the imported users and groups via the Crowd Administration Console (assuming the directory's permissions allow this).

Screenshot: 'Import Confluence Users'






Next Step

To give the imported groups access to the Confluence application, see 3.4 Specifying which Groups can access an Application.

Related Topics  

Crowd 1.0 Documentation  





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