Hello everyone - 

We are excited to announce that now, admins will be able to Manage space access in bulk.

Admins will be able to add a user or group to all spaces on a site (or remove them from all spaces) in one bulk action. This can be done for all spaces on the site, all spaces except personal spaces, or all personal spaces.

Currently, admins have to go to each Space, one-by-one, in order to make the appropriate access changes. The team is very excited to save time for our administrators with this launch!

Navigate to Space permissions, and you'll see the ability to 'Add people to all spaces.' This is available to all editions. 

There are of course, further bulk permissions management use cases and we will keep those top of mind as we build out our product. 

Hello everyone - I am pleased to announce that we have launched the ability to manage Confluence Space access in bulk. Admins will be able to add a user or group to all spaces on a site (or remove them from all spaces) in one bulk action. This can be done for all spaces on the site, all spaces except personal spaces, or all personal spaces. This feature is available to Standard, Premium, and Enterprise. It is currently being rolled out, and will hit the release tracks in the coming weeks. Please find more information on the Admin community below:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-Admins-articles/Manage-Confluence-space-access-in-bulk/ba-p/2674446?utm_source=atlcomm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immediate_general_article&utm_content=topic

Just want to add my case to the list:

Currently, I'm preparing the Confluence Cloud migrations for two customers.
After migrating to Cloud Confluence administrators don't have access to every space anymore because the superuser group confluence-administrators does not work there.
I was looking for a way to bulk change permissions for such a group via UI or REST API after migration is complete. Unfortunately, there is still no native way to achieve this

Therefore, I was forced to use the old XML-RPC API in Confluence server to add space permissions (NB: still no REST API available for this - facepalm) before doing the migration.
Considering that bulk edit actions are required and very useful for every administrator I don't understand that this feature wasn't completed in the early days of Confluence already.

Come on, look at the created date: 01/Apr/2004 That's almost 20 years! To me this request is more than just due.

Hi there,

I'm a Product Manager @ Kolekti (Part of The Adaptavist Group) and we're currently exploring the content creation and management space. I'm looking at speaking to users who are creating and managing content at scale and it seems this could be a good place to reach out. We've got some high level concept ideas related to this discussion and would value your feedback in shaping the next stages of our research. 

If you'd be willing to have an informal chat please also let me know and we can connect 🙏 🙂

https://getsupport.atlassian.com/browse/CES-30389

• Task description: Add and remove (=replace) groups at least on communal spaces, potentially also on personal spaces => >2200 spaces
• When/Why 
  • acute: IdP change and group revamp -> happens maybe once per decade
  • chronic: continued fast company growth and constant changes in the org structure -> constant changes in some parts of the company
  • Pain level on a scale of 1 to 7 (1 = annoying, 7=excruciating to the point it is not done): 7 (but it has to be done anyway, otherwise people will lose access XD)

https://getsupport.atlassian.com/browse/MOVE-148569

Hello,

After migration from Confluence Server to Confluence Cloud (well, right now for me )

We have to change some groups permissions on EVERY our 500 spaces, because now they are Atlassian Access group, and no more AD groups.

That means : I need it one time hopefully. Pain level 7, but I will do it anyway by opening manually every space permission page of every space.

On Confluence Server, we did this once a year when there was a change in our organisation. We added or removed a group on every space, but with PowerScript it was easy... pain level 1

Hi all,

While we do not have a firm target date to share yet, we're excited to let you know this long time feature request is actively being explored. We've reviewed the comments over the years, but need your help in understanding the current state of various bulk space permission management tasks.  

If you're interested in sharing, please reply here with

• Task description (e.g. Add a new group to many spaces and configure permissions)
• When/Why 
  • Frequency 
  • Pain level on a scale of 1 to 7 (1 = annoying, 7=excruciating to the point it is not done)
  • (e.g. When a new team is formed due to company re-org: about 1-2 times a year, pain scales with how many teams are changed.)
  • (e.g. When new groups are created integrating Atlassian with our IDP: rare-hopefully just one time, pain is 7)
• Any other feedback you would like to share related to managing space permissions at scale.

Thank you!

Deborah (Confluence PM) & Kristen (Confluence Principal PM)

i would also love this to be a thing considering we have over 2,000 spaces to add one group to, it would be great for this to be a one click process to select all the space permissions and be able to basically sudo the permission group onto all of them at once