Rocket.chat: Administrator not able to edit Owner of Channel

[sgohl]

Not explicitely a bug, but wouldn't it make sense to let the administrator users change the owners of private channels? Every other field is editable, but I can't find a reason why changing the owner should be prohibited for administrators; like when the only owner left.

It's possible to change the room to public, so ...

[ankar84]

It's possible to change the room to public, so ...

Yes. That's only one workaround that I use for that cases.

• Convert Private Chat to public
• Find that Public Chat
• Add\Change owner
• Convert Public Chat to Private chat again in chat settings.

[sgohl]

Add\Change owner

this is not possible either, although the room is public now.
There is no edit-icon next to the Owner field

Anyway, I actually wanted to open a discussion on implementing the possibility to edit the owner, instead of discussing workarounds

[ankar84]

this is not possible either, although the room is public now.
There is no edit-icon next to the Owner field

You can do it in regular (not Admin UI) channel settings. Set owner from Member list. Convert ro Private in Channel info - Edit

Anyway, I actually wanted to open a discussion on implementing the possibility to edit the owner, instead of discussing workarounds

Here I totally agree with you. Such ability would be great to have.

[pierre-lehnen-rc]

You actually can change the owner, it's just not very straightforward:

• Go to admin / Permissions
• Edit the "Owner" role
• Select the room you want to change the owner of by searching for it's name
• Search for the user you want to add as owner and click on the 'Add' button.

[gabriellsh]

we should revise this so it's more straightforward in the future.

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[engelgabriel]

Let's make the option available. Since all events will be recorded on the event system, this should trigger a message on the channel so every member is aware of the change, who did it and when.

[vplb]

You actually can change the owner, it's just not very straightforward:

Go to admin / Permissions
Edit the "Owner" role
Select the room you want to change the owner of by searching for it's name
Search for the user you want to add as owner and click on the 'Add' button.

We created a room, the ownership was handed from the initial owner to new owner, and the original owner still shows up in the room's information. If looking under the admin/permissions/owner role, it shows the new owner.

This attempt to change ownership does not work for me. As admin, i try to add myself to a private group, and receive "invalid user - user is not a member of the room".

I think it's important that Admins have the ability to re-organize ownership. This shouldn't involve the original owner, as if they leave the room is unchangeable.