Group creation works fine with a POST to /rest/api/admin/group. Oddly enough, in my code, I also specify type='group', not just the group name. Wonder if the schema has changed along the way, but it works.

Creating users seems to have found its way to 8.4.0, I'll need to take a look at that. Updating still has no method, voting for that PUT...

Hey community,

can someone verify that creating groups via API works? Unfortunately the POST Method seems to get stuck during authentication while the GET Method works as expected.

We are currently running a Confluence Data Center instance on version 8.6.1

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#URL to our Instance
$URL = "https://link-to-our-confluence/rest/api/latest/group"

#Auth Token got created using my Confluence admin Account
$BearerToken = "My-Bearer-Token" 
 
 # Set up headers for the request
 $Headers = @

 # Define the JSON data for creating the group
 $jsonData = @

| convertto-Json
 
 Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $URL -Method Post -Headers $headers -Body $jsonData

 
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This is the error i am getting: "The remote server returned an error: (405) Method Not Allowed."

thanks in advance!

Opened a new suggestion for providing a PUT method for the user endpoint: CONFSERVER-93140

First of all thanks for providing methods for the usermanagement and group management. 

But why is there no method to update a user? Pls tell me if there will be a future deployment scheduled which includes this method. 

Best

Tobias 

There is still no method to create a user. The older API was "deprecated" long ago, but it's still the only functional way to manage internal directory users!

A fix for this issue is available in Confluence Server and Data Center 8.2.0.
Upgrade now or check out the Release Notes to see what other issues are resolved.

Hi 028a7e4a38d5,

Thanks for your question. Unfortunately, this is a fairly significant feature that's been delivered onto our 8.x platform release targeting 8.2 we are currently not looking to backport the functionality. This is because in order to ensure the stability of our LTS releases we generally only backport non-platform breaking bug fixes.
More details on our backport policy can be found on our bugfix documentation here. We are currently planning our next LTS which will likely be shipping later this year, this will include the REST API work for users and groups along with all the other features and fixes shipped in Confluence since the 7.19 LTS. I'm sorry this may not have been the answer you were looking for, but I hope I've shed some light on our process and how we need to keep our LTS stable by minimising major changes to it.

Warm Regards.

Michael Andreacchio
Confluence DC PM

We recently migrated to 7.19.5. We are also looking for this feature. Is there a patch Atlassian provides to make this work in our version ?

Hi @James,

Will this feature be backported to 7.19.7 ? We are planning to upgrade from 7.13 to 7.19 which is the next available LTS version. 

It looks like it's coming in 2023; https://www.atlassian.com/wac/roadmap/data-center/rest-api-user-management?status=comingSoon&product=confluence&p=05ac5e43-1d