Default channels/groups

[sampaiodiego]

Right now, when a new user enters on rocket.chat it automatically join to GENERAL channel.

I think this behavior shoud be configurable and admins should have an option to choose which channels and/or groups new users will automatically join after registration.

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[rodrigok]

+1

[wellingtonufsc]

Is there any prospect the development of this possibility?

[rodrigok]

Needs a config option

[mitar]

+1

[jcardila]

+1

[Johann-Snapp]

+1 haha

[engelgabriel]

@sampaiodiego please add respective the room property to the channel settings.

[engelgabriel]

closed by #2290

[FaizanZahid]

totally agree on this suggestion.

[RAurelian]

Hi,

Has this been added? I`m on version 2.4.2 (ubuntu snap) and cannot find any way to make a channel default.

[sampaiodiego]

@RAurelian there is a new snap release that fixes an issue to show the checkbox to mark a channel as default again.. you should be able to update your snap to version 2.4.9

[RAurelian]

Thanks, I`ll try the update maybe next week.

[RAurelian]

Apparently the snap updated itself automatically to 2.4.9 and while for the default room you have the checkbox and can make it not be default, there still are no checkboxes for other rooms to make them default.

[sampaiodiego]

On "Admin > Rooms", clicking in a public room will open a panel with the following options:

there you can change to make it default.

one thing to notice, different from the issue title, private groups cannot be default.

[RAurelian]

Thank you very much for the clarification - indeed, apart from 2 default public channels I had, I was looking at private groups. After creating another public channel, I was able to find the Default toggle and enable it.

[robpedersendev]

I have a room titled important-announcements that is a broadcast channel. When I got to select default, MI get this error.

Please adjust this so one can make a broadcast channel as a default group

[kassemz]

I have a room titled important-announcements that is a broadcast channel. When I got to select default, MI get this error.

Please adjust this so one can make a broadcast channel as a default group

+1 for this and I'm sure we are not the only ones needing this option. it makes sense that an announcement channel need to be one of the default channels so everyone gets the announcements.

[leoxu1007]

+1