Mattermost Version: 7.5.2 Database Schema Version: 95 Database: postgres How does the Administrator make categories the same for everyone? For example, if I put in Channel 1, Channel 2 & Channel 3 in Category My Category, then I want new member to have this category, including the three channels, …

Never trust the official API documentation! As it turns out, providing the channel IDs via UpdateSidebarCategoriesForTeamForUser was already possible – it’s just, that the API documentation is incomplete. So, if anyone wants to move a channel from one category to another, one must fetch both categ…

Hey Akito, You can do that with an onboardingscript which creates the categories and adds the channels for the user in the sidebar via the API, but that requires you to know when people join or to prepare their accounts before first use, not sure if this is an option. There’s a feature which never…

[image] agriesser: onboardingscript Was searching for that, but I did not find anything. mattermost/mattermost-plugin-welcomebot/blob/master/README.md#example # Welcome Bot Plugin [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/circleci/project/github/mattermost/mattermost-plugin-we…

The onboardingscript is nothing you can find online, it’s more a hint that you would need something like that. I wrote a script for someone on the community server some time ago, which should give you an idea on how to proceed. If not, let me know how we can fine-tune it to your needs: #!/bin/bash…

The script seems very helpful. Thank you. Meanwhile, I checked out the API Documentation and simply could not find a way to add a channel to a specific category or assign a category to a specific channel. Am I missing something?

That’s because a channel does not belong to a sidebar category. The categories are part of the user’s view, so every user could have his own categories, that’s why you cannot configure that by channel. The API calls you’re looking for are CreateSidebarCategoryForTeamForUser et al.

[image] agriesser: That’s because a channel does not belong to a sidebar category. The categories are part of the user’s view, so every user could have his own categories, that’s why you cannot configure that by channel. Yes, I understand, but there must be a way to move a channel into a spec…

[image] Akito: Seen that one, but it does not let me assign channels to it, by user or something equivalent to that functionality. :confused: Okay, so the only place I found anything related to what I am seeking is in GetSidebarCategoriesForTeamForUser . Example Output [ { "order": [ …

Thanks for the hint about the documentation, I cannot see the channel_id in your example. Are you saying that the payload in the documentation [ { "id": "string", "user_id": "string", "team_id": "string", "display_name": "string", "type": "channels" } ] does also support a c…

@agriesser I’m back. Had decided to dive a bit deeper into this issue. getUsersSidebarCategories incorrectly reports "sorting" value opened 04:51PM - 06 Mar 23 UTC (UTC) closed 02:23PM - 19 Apr 23 UTC (UTC) …

Sorry to butt in, but is it possible to have such a function as a feature request? We would need that too.

[Solved] Make Categories the same for all Members

Troubleshooting

ylluminate (ylluminate) December 17, 2024, 10:10pm 20

So I figured out a very clunky, but working, workaround that allows bulk removal + re-adding and selective re-adding for private or non-shotgun (read: all team members are already members) approach:

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[Solved] Make Categories the same for all Members

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