A recent question on Atlassian Answers asked if it was possible to display a list of Confluence Space Administrators to end users so that the end users could go directly to a Space Administrator to ask for permissions rather than having to go via the Confluence Administrators, who would then have to contact the Space Administrators to confirm that it was OK to grant the permissions, causing a delay in the process.

Detailed below is a simple user macro that lists all of the users with administration permissions on the current space with the profile card hover so that users can visit the administrators’ profiles and view their contact details. The macro lists users that have administration permissions inherited from group memberships and from being a Confluence Administrator in addition to the users who have explicitly been granted administration permissions on their individual accounts.

To create the macro:

1. Login to Confluence as a Confluence Administrator
2.  Select Browse -> Confluence Admin
3. Select User Macros -> Create a new user macro
4. Enter the information as provided below:

 Template:

## Macro title: Space Administrators
## Macro has a body: N
## Body processing: Selected body processing option
## Output: Selected output option
##
## Developed by: Andrew Frayling
## Date created: 21/03/2012
## Installed by: <your name>
## Macro to display a list of user that are able to administer the current space.
## @noparams

#set($containerManagerClass = $content.class.forName('com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager'))
#set($getInstanceMethod = $containerManagerClass.getDeclaredMethod('getInstance',null))
#set($containerManager = $getInstanceMethod.invoke(null,null))
#set($containerContext = $containerManager.containerContext)
#set($users = $userAccessor.getUsers())

<table class="confluenceTable">
  <tr>
    <th class="confluenceTh">Space Administrators</th>
  </tr>

  #foreach($user in $users)
  ## list the users who can administer the current space
  #if ($permissionHelper.canAdminister($user, $space))
    <tr>
      <td class="confluenceTd">#usernameLink($user.name)</td>
    </tr>
  #end
#end
</table>

5. Click Save

You can then use the following macro when editing a page:

{spaceadmins}

Or select the macro from the Macro Browser via Insert -> Other Macros:

Hope you find it useful  The source code for this user macro is available on Bitbucket.

Related Links

• “Know Space Administrators” question on Atlassian Answers
• Writing Confluence User Macros
• Confluence Space Permissions Overview
• Space Administrators User Macro source on Bitbucket

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