Rocket.chat: Default Selector For Channels Missing

[shirt-dev]

Rocket.Chat Version: 0.55.1
Running Instances: 1
DB Replicaset OpLog: Enabled
Node Version: v4.8.0

The default selector for channels seems to be gone. This is a big issue for my team as we have an announcements channel.

[k0nsl]

This put a spook in my wheel as well since I just archived our primary/default channel and now there is no option of making another (new) channel/group the default.

[Rohlik]

This was implemented in https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/2290 but now is gone...

[gregs007]

Confirmed 0.55.1.
It's missing from both user UI and admin/rooms UI, see screenshots:

[shirt-dev]

So is this going to be fixed or what?

[indiadamjones]

Looking for this feature too. Deleted initial #general channel, so I could recreate a fresh default channel. Maybe not the best way to tackle that idea, but I didn't want to have to delete all the hubot test messages one by one. Anyway, perhaps a way to define the default channel in the docker-compose.yml? Tried to pull 0.55.0 and see if I could spin up, with the feature, but didn't see it. +1 thanks. (Next time will just create a scratch channel, and delete that instead, derp)

[gregs007]

In the meantime, if you need to set a room to default while waiting for this to be fixed (I'm running in ubuntu snap):

gschwart@rocketchat:~$ sudo /snap/rocketchat-server/current/bin/mongo

Then in mongo shell:

rs0:PRIMARY> use parties
switched to db parties
rs0:PRIMARY> db.rocketchat_room.update({"name":"test"},{$set: {"default": true}})
WriteResult({ "nMatched" : 1, "nUpserted" : 0, "nModified" : 1 })
rs0:PRIMARY>

The name of my room in this case is test

[geekgonecrazy]

This is fixed in 0.56.0 if you're on snap you should now be on that version and the selector already available to you :+1:

[geekgonecrazy]

Fixed via: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/commit/345b4ffe288d51411b6cbc505c2de19e2ffd8320

[aventrax]

Sorry but I had this issue on 0.56 too, so I updated to 0.57.2 and the issue is still there.
I have no button to edit the default channel, @geekgonecrazy if the commit fixed the issue editing ChannelSettings.js, I haven't any file named like this on my installation, so.... I do not understand!

[najtin]

this is back

[GeorgeGedox]

This issue is still present. There is no button to make a room default in the current version, why is this closed?

[najtin]

this was fixed and then the bug appeared again
last year it definitly worked fine

[najtin]

i think its somewhere in https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/commit/c2ed1e325af38f6d4b2eb6a8452fafa29d8f71db but couldnt find iot so far

[RAurelian]

In the meantime, if you need to set a room to default while waiting for this to be fixed (I'm running in ubuntu snap):

gschwart@rocketchat:~$ sudo /snap/rocketchat-server/current/bin/mongo

Then in mongo shell:

rs0:PRIMARY> use parties
switched to db parties
rs0:PRIMARY> db.rocketchat_room.update({"name":"test"},{$set: {"default": true}})
WriteResult({ "nMatched" : 1, "nUpserted" : 0, "nModified" : 1 })
rs0:PRIMARY>

The name of my room in this case is test

THANK YOU for the guide - I`m on v2.4.2 (Ubuntu Snap) and there is no way to set the default status of a room from the UI, so this worked.