Create federated rooms
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You can create federated having both Rocket.Chat and other federated users.
To create a federated channel,
Enable Federated.
Add members (optional) and click Create. See Invite external users to your Rocket.Chat server for the syntax to add users from other federated servers to your room.
Whenever your user is invited to participate in a federated room created in an external server, the server name is displayed at the top of that room. This helps the user to differentiate when there are multiple rooms with the same name but all from different servers.
Create a federated DM with these steps:
To create a federated Multi Direct Message:
You can also use an available slash command to create and invite users for Direct Messages rooms. The general syntax for the available slash command is:
Where:
/federation: The slash command itself.
dm: The command you want to execute, dm is the only one available now.
Only the name and topic of a federated room can be edited after it is created.
Deleting federated rooms are not supported for now.
Federation does not support sending invite links for now.
Start by within your Rocket.Chat workspace.
You cannot create within federated Channels.
You can create a with other federated users in your workspace.
Create a
Set the federated user you wish to message following the .
Using , you can send Direct Messages to multiple users(federated or not) at once.
Create a
Select the users to whom you want to send messages following the .
@username:server.com: The external user you want to invite, using the
To create Multi-user Direct Messages using slash commands, you need to open the message box in any channel and type the following command using the :
