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User groups

User groups offer a flexible way to manage permissions in your organization. Most permissions in Zulip can be granted to any combination of roles, groups, and individual users.

Groups provide an easy way to refer to multiple users at once. You can:

  • Mention a group of users, notifying everyone in the group as if they were personally mentioned.
  • Compose a direct message to a user group. This automatically puts all the users in the group into the addressee field.
  • Subscribe a user group to a channel. This individually subscribes all the users in the group.

Browse and join user groups

  • Desktop/Web

  1. Click on the gear () icon in the upper right corner of the web or desktop app.

  2. Select Group settings.

  3. Click All groups in the upper left.

  4. Scroll through the list of user groups. You can use the search box near the top of the menu to filter the list by group name or description.

  5. Click the plus (plus) icon to the left of a user group to join the group.

Leave a group

  • Desktop/Web

  1. Click on the gear () icon in the upper right corner of the web or desktop app.

  2. Select Group settings.

  3. Click the checkmark (checkmark) icon to the left of a user group to leave the group.

View a group's card

  • Desktop/Web

  1. Click on a user group mention in a message to open the group card.

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