Summary

When a user wants to share a Confluence page to a group, the user needs to know the exact name of the group. Currently, there are no preview of all available groups and the search feature for the groups is not smart enough to detect the full group name if the user input is a substring of the name.

For example: In a Confluence instance with the following groups: hr group, finance group. If a user types "group" in the Add People field of the search dialog, Confluence will not retrieve the above groups as options the user can choose from. The user must start his search with "finance" in order for Confluence to retrieve finance group as one of the options.

Steps to Reproduce

• Given a Confluence instance that has the following groups: finance group, hr group
  • Navigate to a page and then click "Share"
  • In the panel, under Add People, type group

Expected Results

Confluence will give a list of all groups that has the text "group" in it.

Actual Results

Confluence does not retrieve any group.

Improvement Suggestions:

1. Make group search "smart" enough to be able to retrieve all groups that has a particular sub-string from the search parameter.
2. Display all groups in the dropdown for easy access.