From version 8.24.0 onwards, Scaffolding provides an administrator setting that allows Confluence administrators to set the default limit for User Options results. When this limit is exceeded, the processing will stop and an error message will be displayed.
Why there is a limit for User Options
The User Options macro is useful for retrieving users with specific permissions from a variety of user directories. However, processing a huge number of users with their permissions, when used with the check or select list type, may cause performance issues for Confluence.
It is also a bad experience for users to have to select an option from a huge list of radio buttons, checkboxes, or dropdown menus if there are a huge number of user results. Setting List Data with the auto complete type is more appropriate in that use case.
This limit is different from the List Data items limit in the sense that it only targets accidental misuse of the powerful User Options macro at an upstream stage when very large user directories are being queried. On the other hand, the List Data items limit activates downstream just before rendering and it targets all List Data submacros.
Enabling or disabling the User Options limit
This query limit is enabled by default when upgrading to Scaffolding 8.24.0. The default limit value is 250.
- Refer to the Accessing Scaffolding's Administrator Settings guide to get access to the settings page.
- Next to the User Options query limit settings header, click the Edit button.
- On this page, you can enable or disable the User Options limit by toggling the Enabled toggle on or off.
- You can also set a new limit by updating the value in the User Options query limit input field (defaults to 250).
- Once you're done, click Save.
From version 8.24.0 onwards, Scaffolding provides an administrator setting that allows Confluence administrators to set the default limit for User Options results. When this limit is exceeded, the processing will stop and an error message will be displayed.
Why there is a limit for User Options
The User Options macro is useful for retrieving users with specific permissions from a variety of user directories. However, processing a huge number of users with their permissions, when used with the check or select list type, may cause performance issues for Confluence.
It is also a bad experience for users to have to select an option from a huge list of radio buttons, checkboxes, or dropdown menus if there are a huge number of user results. Setting List Data with the auto complete type is more appropriate in that use case.
This limit is different from the List Data items limit in the sense that it only targets accidental misuse of the powerful User Options macro at an upstream stage when very large user directories are being queried. On the other hand, the List Data items limit activates downstream just before rendering and it targets all List Data submacros.
Enabling or disabling the User Options limit
This query limit is enabled by default when upgrading to Scaffolding 8.24.0. The default limit value is 250.
- Refer to the Accessing Scaffolding's Administrator Settings guide to get access to the settings page.
- Next to the User Options query limit settings header, click the Edit button.
- On this page, you can enable or disable the User Options limit by toggling the Enabled toggle on or off.
- You can also set a new limit by updating the value in the User Options query limit input field (defaults to 250).
- Once you're done, click Save.