This page last changed on Nov 01, 2006 by jens@atlassian.com.

When Confluence is run in a shared environment, certain changes to Confluence features have to be applied in order to guarantee privacy. To account for this, we've added a new setting in the general configuration called Shared Mode.

When should shared mode be used?

The shared mode setting should be used when Confluence is run in a shared environment where distinct groups and users share the same instance. To ensure that one party can not bring down the whole system, certain features will be disabled in a shared environment. Also to guarantee the privacy of independent groups, search and security behaviour is different in Shared Mode.

What is affected?

Feature Behaviour
Search Searching for users is currently disabled in shared mode
User/Group Picker Only groups the current users is a member of, and their users will be displayed in the picker
Mail The mail feature is currently disabled in shared mode
People Directory The people directory will be disabled in shared mode
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