Channel/Group topics

[warcode]

Editable topic/title shown at the top of the channel/group behind the name.

• Displayed in chat when a user enters for the first time.
• Used as MOTD/description/etc

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[graywolf336]

👍 yes, this is very helpful to have.

[AdrianoCahete]

Settable with command /topic is good too.

[gwillen]

Pretty excited about this feature! We like to use this (in Slack/IRC) for stuff like FAQs and important links.

[plemarquand]

Isn't this sort of done? If you open up Room Info there is a field for setting the topic. You can only set the topic if you have the 'edit-room' permission.

There isn't a /topic slash command though.

[gwillen]

@plemarquand This is sort of hard for me to test, since there's no way for me to know (that I can see) what permissions I have on a channel, and I don't know if it's possible to set them.

But I assume I have 'edit-room' on a private channel created by me... and I think I may have run into another bug? It seems like, on rooms I own, there's a 'gear' icon in the top right corner, which looks like it could be the 'Room Info' you're talking about. But when I click on it, search opens instead. And in fact, it seems like on rooms I own, clicking any of the tabs in the top right opens the tab below the one I clicked on. Very odd.

[plemarquand]

@gwillen The "Room Info" button is the first button on the flex-tab-bar on right right. Its an "information" icon (lowercase i in a circle). Without permissions I see a 'topic' field, but its just empty and I can't change it.

[gwillen]

Hm, I think we must be running an old version? We have no icon like that. Thanks.

[geekgonecrazy]

@RocketChat/core I believe this functionality was merged down in last weeks version right?

@gwillen what version are you running?

[engelgabriel]

[Frankstar]

@engelgabriel Is it possible to use hyperlinks and inline picture in topics?
Like ![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.svg?branch=develop)

or Hyperlinks like [Rocket.Wiki](https://rocket.chat/docs/) Rocket.Wiki

would be very cool

[geekgonecrazy]

Hyperlinks are supported. You'll see we use them on our demo server. Images however I don't think are. I would probably argue it would just add clutter. What do you do if some puts a huge graphic there?

[RichardFoxworthy]

Images & icons in topic can deliver very valuable context and info in compact way. Definitely a good thing to support

[Frankstar]

@geekgonecrazy well sure - but you can mess up so many things.
if you put in a big picture and mess up the header -> remove it.

Still its a very usefull Feature for us any many others i guess.
by the way, can topics be changed by everyone or just admins?