# Global Team Categories **URL:** \ **Category:** Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [April 8, 2022, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/global-team-categories/13174 "2022-04-08T08:46:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cneumaier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/cneumaier/32/5440_2.png) [@cneumaier](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/cneumaier)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/global-team-categories/13174/1 "2022-04-08T08:46:59Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![mike.schulz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@mike.schulz](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/mike.schulz)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/global-team-categories/13174/2 "2022-08-26T12:01:04Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![agriesser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/agriesser/32/5644_2.png) [@agriesser](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/agriesser)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/global-team-categories/13174/3 "2022-08-26T14:44:10Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![agriesser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/agriesser/32/5644_2.png) [@agriesser](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/agriesser)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/global-team-categories/13174/4 "2022-08-31T10:21:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![D1re\_W0lf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/d1re_w0lf/32/7743_2.png) [@D1re\_W0lf](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/D1re_W0lf)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/global-team-categories/13174/5 "2024-03-27T11:20:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![john.oliver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/john.oliver/32/6436_2.png) [@john.oliver](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/john.oliver)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/global-team-categories/13174/6 "2024-03-27T19:13:20Z")
[Make Categories the same for all Members](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/make-categories-the-same-for-all-members/15266) may offer some help