Global Team Categories

Troubleshooting
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Hello Everybody,

I am using Mattermost for mutliple teams and we are using the “categories” feature to sort channels in global topics.
As far as I know, this feature can not be setup globally in a team, only on a per user basis. What i would like to do is to setup categories in a global style to be synchronized to every user. Currently every user has to setup those categories by themselves.
Am i missing a configuration here or is this not possible currently?

We are using matermost version 6.5.0 in Team Edition.
Thanks and Best regards,
Christoph

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This is exactly the feature we are looking for.

So for the entire company, we should like to create categories (e.g) teams and pre-assign users into the categories. When a user then logs into their matter most that can see a team for each category and the users for each team.

Perhaps a basic export / import mechanism could also work?

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Hi everybody and welcome to the Mattermost forums mike,

with regards to the feature request: Are we also talking about a permanent update of those categories and channels, basically keeping them in sync with a template you define and want to manage or should this just be used for the initial deployment on new user accounts?
There are API calls available for preconfiguring a user’s experience and while there is no platform integrated way to do that as of today, I think it’s pretty easy to hack something together which does exactly that that could be run periodically, but I think it also depends on how your users are being created.
Will they be created by you or is that a self-signup where they need to immediately have the correct config right after the first login?

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Hi again,

maybe the channel actions (available sind 6.6) would be helpful for you. You can configure on a per-channel basis, that once a user joins a channel, this channel will automatically be added to a pre-defined channel category in his client. If the category does not exist, it will be created automatically.

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That would be awesome, if possible. (As of March 2024 it still isn’t)
It’s THE main reason why I can’t convince my community to change from Discord to Mattermost.

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Make Categories the same for all Members may offer some help