Manage permissions for user groups

User groups are a great way to communicate with multiple members at once. When you mention a user group – @designers, for example – every member in the group will be notified. You can also mention a user group in a new channel to quickly invite all of the group’s members at once.

As an owner or admin, you can allow other members to create, disable or modify user groups, as well as create @admin and @owner user groups to easily notify all of the admins and owners in your workspace.

Set user group permissions

Pro and Business+ subscriptions

Enterprise Grid subscription

1. From your desktop, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
   
2. Select Tools & settings from the menu, then click Workspace settings.
3. Click on the Permissions tab at the top of the page.
4. Scroll down to User groups and click on Expand.
5. Choose who can create and disable user groups and who can edit them.
6. If you'd like to, create default user groups for @admins and @owners by ticking the appropriate boxes.
7. Click Save.

Org level

Org owners and org admins can set an org policy to manage user group permissions for every workspace in their org.

1. From your desktop, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
   
2. Select Tools & settings from the menu, then click Organisation settings.
3. Click on  Settings in the left sidebar, then select Organisation policies.
4. Click on the Permissions tab.
5. Scroll down to User groups and click on Add policy.
6. Choose who can create and disable user groups and who can edit them.
7. If you'd like to, create default user groups for @admins and @owners by ticking the appropriate boxes.
8. Click onSave policy, then Create policy to confirm.

Workspace level

If an org policy hasn’t been set, workspace owners and admins can set user group permissions for workspaces that they manage.

1. From your desktop, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
   
2. Hover over Tools & settings, then click Workspace settings. (If you manage more than one workspace, choose one from the drop-down menu.)
3. Click on the Permissions tab at the top of the page.
4. Scroll down to User groups and click on Expand.
5. Choose who can create and disable user groups and who can modify them.
6. Click Save.

Note: In an Enterprise Grid org, you can only create default user groups for @admins and @owners at the org level.

Who can use this feature?

• Workspace owners/admins and org owners/admins
• Available on paid subscriptions