Manage Teams

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This guide offers comprehensive instructions on the different team actions available in Rocket.Chat teams. The actions you can take depend on your assigned permissions.

View or edit team information

  • Click the Team info icon from the menu bar to view more details about the team.

  • Click the Hide button to hide a team from the list in the left sidebar. If someone sends a message to that team, it will be displayed again on the left sidebar. To unhide a team, search for it using the Directory icon.

  • Click the Edit button to update the team information and avatar.

    • Enable the Hide system messages option to hide system messages and select the Rocket.Chat action alerts you want to hide. For example, the User joined option hides the message displayed when a new user joins the team.

    • Enable Allow Reacting to allow members to react to messages in a read-only team.

    • To set an automatic pruning retention policy for the team, kindly visit Per-room policies.

  • Click the Delete button to delete the team. Once you delete a team, the associated chat content and configurations will also be deleted. You also have the option to keep or delete team channels. If you delete a team and decide to keep the channels, they go to the workspace.

  • Click the View channels button to list all the channels in the team.

  • A team owner can not leave a team until they set someone else as the owner of that team.

  • You can also enter the command /part or /leave in the message input box to leave that team.

  • When leaving a team, you can decide if you want to continue in the team channels or not.

  • If you using the mobile app, tap the team name to access the team options.

Other team options

  • In addition to editing a team, you can perform various other actions in the menu bar to manage and interact with a team effectively. For details, refer to Room Options.

  • Additionally, you can add channels to a team and convert a channel into a team. See Manage Team Channels for details.

  • For options to manage team members, refer to the Manage Room Members document.

  • You can also assign members different room roles to manage communication and collaboration effectively. For details, see the Room Roles document.