Assign roles for users in federated rooms
Room members can assign room roles for federated users within a federated room context. Roles in federated rooms are slightly different from the regular Rocket.Chat Roles for the Room Scope.
Federated rooms support three roles:
- Owner: Owns a room and fully controls it and its activities. They can invite users, assign new owners, promote/demote moderators, remove users from the room, and edit the room name and topics.
- Moderator: Moderators can manage user actions and details of the room. They can invite users, assign new moderators, remove users from the room, and edit the room name and topics.
- User (default): Room users can send and perform message actions in the room. Users cannot perform any room management related task
Matrix uses the concept of power levels to define room roles with the
Owner being the most powerful, followed by the Moderatorand the Userthe least powerful.Rocket.Chat global roles are not supported in federated rooms. It doesn't matter if they are Room Scoped.
For rooms created using Element as a Matrix client, only Owners (admins) can assign room roles/permissions, and you need to change the Change permissions room setting to
Moderator. Otherwise, Moderators using Rocket.Chat as their Matrix Client, cannot assign roles to other users.This can be done by navigating to Room info > Room settings > Roles & Permission on your Element client.
Rooms that are created with Element as the client has a set of room permission possibilities.
Changing the permissions for event-specific features can lead to unexpected behavior for users on Rocket.Chat as their Matrix client.
The main rules for assigning roles in federated rooms are:
- Only room owners (admin) can assign roles at the moment of the room creation.
- All the users added to federated rooms have a User role by default.
- Users with the same role cannot assign roles (promote/demote) between them.
- Users with a specific role cannot demote other users from the room with the same role.
- Users can only demote and promote users in the layer again right below his/her roles.
- Whenever a user wants to promote a user to a role as powerful as his/her own, undoing that change will not be possible (a confirmation modal will double-check the operation).
- Whenever a user wants to demote himself/herself, it will not be possible to regain the same privileges the user has had. The only possibility is for a user with the necessary permission to give back the same role for that user(a confirmation modal will double-check the operation).
For any other applicable rule, they are the same as regular Rocket.Chat rooms (e.g., Room owners cannot demote themselves if they are the last room owner).
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