Is it possible group users so that you can easily @tag a whole team?
Asked by Kelly Watts:

At the moment to tag all members of a team, e.g. when sharing a page to a whole team or tagging a whole team in a comment, I need to "@tag" each user individually. This is time consuming and there is a risk I won't remember to tag everyone.

It would be really useful if I could assign users to a team and use an "@engineering" or "@specific-project" tag to notify users who are part of a team.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Kelly,

(What you call a "tag" is actually called a "[mention](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/mentions-724765338.html)", which might help you if you're looking for documentation/help on it.)

What you're looking for are called [groups](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-groups-for-administrators-138706.html), and they're part of user management. You can create groups and add users to them. Whilst you can't mention a group, you can [share a page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/share-a-page-or-blog-post-724765345.html) with a whole group using the Share button at the top right of a page by using the group name.

Also, there is a feature called [autowatch](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/watch-pages-spaces-and-blogs-139579.html#WatchPages,SpacesandBlogs-Autowatchandothernotificationoptions) that automatically sets a user to watch a page if they create, edit or comment on it. Any user can also choose to [watch any page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/watch-pages-spaces-and-blogs-139579.html) they have access to. If you're the space administrator you can also [manage watchers](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/manage-watchers-218271870.html) and add users to the watch list for a page of entire space, although you can't set an entire group to watch a page/space, you have to add them individually. Watching is a good way of getting Confluence to push notifications to people automatically.

One final suggestion: You can set up a group email address - e.g. [engineers@yourcompany.com](mailto:engineers@yourcompany.com) - and set it to autoforward mails to all of the engineers. Then set up a Confluence user with that email address, and just mention that user. The notification will go to [engineers@yourcompany.com](mailto:engineers@yourcompany.com), and will be autoforwarded to all of the engineers. It's a bit out of scope, but it's an effective way of managing the notifications for large groups.

comments: author: Kelly Watts
body: Thanks for your help, Rob!

I'll try the email workaround.

It looks like this is a common problem - Atlassian pointed me towards an existing suggestion request, [CONF-23015](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23015).

They suggested looking at the [Page Users Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ru.andreymarkelov.atlas.plugins.spacementions/server/overview) as well.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: The Page Users macro looked really useful....until I realised that it's for server versions only and, like you, we're on Cloud ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

But that issue has got nearly 600 votes (including 1 more from me), which is a lot for a Confluence issue, so hopefully Atlassian will prioritise it and get it done soon. Thanks for letting me know about it :smile:


author: Sabrina Aberman
body: That app has also been archived since :(


author: Anthony Miglioranzi
body: You'll need to create a "Team", more background [here](https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-account/docs/what-is-an-atlassian-team/). Once you add the team members to the Team, you'll have the ability to tag the group in Confluence. Additional guidance [here](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/mention-a-person-or-team/).


author: Dirk Brutscher
body: Check out our "**GroupMentions** " **app for Atlassian Confluence** (Server and Data Center), it may solve your notification problem:

**[GroupMentions App in the Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1224901 "GroupMentions App in the Atlassian Marketplace ")**

![GroupMentions1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/146456i6DE6682B2E7292DD/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "GroupMentions1.png")


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