https://zulip.com:443/help/import-from-microsoft-teams
Import from Microsoft Teams | Zulip help center
You can import your current workspace into a Zulip organization. It's a great way to preserve your workspace history when you migrate to Zulip, and to make the...
microsoft teamszulip helpimportcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/configure-who-can-invite-to-channels
Configure who can subscribe other users to channels | Zulip help center
You can configure who can subscribe other users to channels. If you have permission to subscribe users to a specific channel, you can always do so, whether or...
zulip helpconfiguresubscribeuserschannels
https://zulip.com:443/help/generate-integration-url
Generate URL for an integration | Zulip help center
Many Zulip integrations are webhooks. An incoming webhook integration allows a third-party service, such as an issue tracker or an alerting tool, to post...
zulip helpgenerateurlintegrationcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/change-your-language
Change your language | Zulip help center
Note that this will not change channel names, topic names (other than general chat), or the language of messages you receive.
zulip helpchangelanguagecenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/invite-users-to-join
Invite users to join | Zulip help center
Before inviting users, you may want to delete any test messages or topics.
zulip helpinviteusersjoincenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/getting-started-with-zulip
Getting started with Zulip | Zulip help center
Welcome to Zulip! This page guides you through getting started using Zulip. If you are setting up a new organization, you may also want to check out our guide...
getting startedzulip helpcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/introduction-to-users
Introduction to users | Zulip help center
A user is an individual's account within a Zulip organization. Administrators can configure how accounts are created in their organization, and how users will...
zulip helpintroductionuserscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/deactivate-your-account
Deactivate your account | Zulip help center
In Zulip, you have a dedicated account for each organization you belong to. Deactivating your Zulip account in one organization will have no effect on any...
zulip helpdeactivateaccountcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/running-bots
Running interactive bots | Zulip help center
Zulip's API has a powerful framework for interactive bots that react to messages in Zulip. You can write and run a custom bot, or run an existing Zulip bot.
zulip helprunninginteractivebotscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/animated-gifs
Animated GIFs | Zulip help center
On self-hosted servers, the GIF picker needs to be configured by a server administrator. You can choose between GIPHY, Tenor and KLIPY as your GIF provider.
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https://zulip.com:443/help/guest-users
Guest users | Zulip help center
You can add users who should have restricted access to your organization as guests. For example, this may be a good choice for contractors or customers invited...
zulip helpguestuserscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/create-an-organization
Create an organization | Zulip help center
It only takes a minute to create a new organization on Zulip Cloud, or on a self-hosted Zulip server you've set up.
zulip helpcreateorganizationcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/mastering-the-compose-box
Mastering the compose box | Zulip help center
Here is an overview of all the information and actions you can take in Zulip's compose box.
zulip helpmasteringcomposeboxcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/email-notifications
Email notifications | Zulip help center
Zulip can be configured to send message notification emails for DMs, mentions, and alerts, as well as channel messages and followed topics.
email notificationszulip helpcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/channel-feed
Channel feed | Zulip help center
The Channel feed is a feed of all the topics that you have not muted in a particular channel. It's a great way to get a quick overview of recent messages in a...
zulip helpchannelfeedcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/request-an-integration
Request an integration | Zulip help center
Zulip comes with over 100 native integrations. Hundreds more are available through Zapier, IFTTT, and the Slack compatible webhook.
zulip helprequestintegrationcenter
https://technical-writers.zulipchat.com/help/getting-started-with-zulip
Getting started with Zulip | Zulip help center
Welcome to Zulip! This page guides you through getting started using Zulip. If you are setting up a new organization, you may also want to check out our guide...
getting startedzulip helpcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/change-your-password
Change your password | Zulip help center
You can reset your password at any time, as long as you either know your current password, or have access to the email address associated with your account.
zulip helpchangepasswordcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/global-times
Global times | Zulip help center
Click the add global time () icon at the bottom of the compose box to open the date picker.
zulip helpglobaltimescenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/star-a-message
Star a message | Zulip help center
Starring messages is a good way to keep track of important messages, such as tasks you need to go back to or documents you reference often.
zulip helpstarmessagecenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/view-a-messages-edit-history
View a message's edit history | Zulip help center
Choose a message in the message feed.
zulip helpviewmessageedithistory
https://zulip.com:443/help/deactivate-a-user-group
Deactivate a user group | Zulip help center
You can deactivate groups you no longer plan to use. Deactivated groups cannot be mentioned, or used for any permissions.
user groupzulip helpdeactivatecenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/import-from-rocketchat
Import from Rocket.Chat | Zulip help center
You can import your current workspace into a Zulip organization. It's a great way to preserve your workspace history when you migrate to Zulip, and to make the...
rocket chatzulip helpimportcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/topic-notifications
Topic notifications | Zulip help center
In Zulip, you can configure how you get notified about new messages for topics you follow.
zulip helptopicnotificationscenter
https://zulip.com/help/moving-from-slack
Moving from Slack | Zulip help center
If you're moving from other communication tools, check out the general guide on moving to Zulip.
zulip helpmovingslackcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/configure-how-links-open
Configure how links open in mobile apps | Zulip help center
You can configure whether website links will open directly in the Zulip app, or in your device's default browser.
links openmobile appszulip helpconfigurecenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/manage-inactive-channels
Hide or reveal inactive channels | Zulip help center
To avoid clutter in the left sidebar, Zulip automatically hides channels with no recent messages if you're subscribed to 20+ channels. You can configure Zulip...
zulip helphiderevealinactivechannels
https://zulip.com:443/help/deactivate-or-reactivate-a-user
Deactivate or reactivate a user | Zulip help center
When you deactivate a user:
zulip helpdeactivatereactivateusercenter
https://technical-writers.zulipchat.com/help/moving-to-zulip
Moving to Zulip | Zulip help center
Check out the dedicated guides for moving to Zulip from Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, and more.
zulip helpmovingcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/latex
LaTeX | Zulip help center
Zulip's compose box has a smart math (LaTeX) () button, which inserts contextually appropriate LaTeX formatting:
zulip helplatexcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/public-access-option
Public access option | Zulip help center
Enabling web-public channels makes it possible to create web-public channels in your organization. It also makes certain information about your organization...
public accesszulip helpoptioncenter
https://zulip.com/help/
Zulip help center | Zulip help center
Welcome to the help center for Zulip organized team chat! Here, you'll find up-to-date information on how to use Zulip, or administer a Zulip organization....
zulip helpcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/configure-who-can-subscribe
Configure who can subscribe to a channel | Zulip help center
You can give users permission to subscribe to a channel. Everyone other than guests can subscribe to any public or web-public channel, so this feature is...
zulip helpconfiguresubscribechannelcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/report-a-message
Report a message | Zulip help center
When moderation requests are enabled, you can report problematic messages. This sends a message to a private channel, where moderators can review the report.
zulip helpreportmessagecenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/add-a-custom-linkifier
Add a custom linkifier | Zulip help center
Linkifiers make it easy to refer to issues or tickets in third party issue trackers, like GitHub, Salesforce, Zendesk, and others. For instance, you can add a...
zulip helpaddcustomcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/view-images-and-videos
View images and videos | Zulip help center
You'll also see previews of linked images and videos, unless they are disabled in your organization.
zulip helpviewimagesvideoscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/numbered-lists
Numbered lists | Zulip help center
(optional) Select the text you want to format.
zulip helpnumberedlistscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/logging-in
Logging in | Zulip help center
By default, Zulip allows logging in via email/password as well as various social authentication providers like Google, GitHub, GitLab, Discord and Apple.
zulip helploggingcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/channel-posting-policy
Channel posting policy | Zulip help center
You can restrict who can send messages to a channel. For example, you can set up an announcement channel where only a specific group of users can send messages.
zulip helpchannelpostingpolicycenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/manage-a-bot
Manage a bot | Zulip help center
Zulip lets you manage the properties of any bot for which you are the owner. Organization administrators can also manage any active bot in the organization.
zulip helpmanagebotcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/restrict-profile-picture-changes
Restrict profile picture changes | Zulip help center
By default, any user can change their profile picture. You can instead prevent users from changing their profile picture. This setting is primarily useful in...
profile picturezulip helprestrictchangescenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/custom-profile-fields
Custom profile fields | Zulip help center
User cards show basic information about a user, and user profiles provide additional details. You can add custom profile fields to user cards and user...
zulip helpcustomprofilefieldscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/read-receipts
Read receipts | Zulip help center
Read receipts let you check who has read a message. You can see read receipts for any message, including both channel messages and direct messages.
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https://zulip.com:443/help/me-action-messages
/me action messages | Zulip help center
zulip helpactionmessagescenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/message-retention-policy
Message retention policy | Zulip help center
By default, Zulip stores messages indefinitely, allowing full-text search of your complete history.
retention policyzulip helpmessagecenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/configure-automated-notices
Configure automated notices | Zulip help center
The Zulip sends automated notices via Notification Bot to notify users about changes in their organization or account. Some types of notices can be configured,...
zulip helpconfigureautomatednoticescenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/move-content-to-another-topic
Move content to another topic | Zulip help center
Zulip makes it possible to move messages between topics. This is useful for keeping messages organized when there is a digression, or the discussion shifts...
zulip helpmovecontentanothertopic
https://zulip.com:443/help/manage-user-groups
Manage user groups | Zulip help center
You can modify the group's name, description, and other settings after it has been created.
user groupszulip helpmanagecenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/create-channels
Create channels | Zulip help center
It's often best to start with just a few channels, and add more as needed. For small teams, you can start with the default channels and go from there.
zulip helpcreatechannelscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/moving-from-slack
Moving from Slack | Zulip help center
If you're moving from other communication tools, check out the general guide on moving to Zulip.
zulip helpmovingslackcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/outgoing-webhooks
Outgoing webhooks | Zulip help center
Outgoing webhooks allow you to build or set up Zulip integrations which are notified when certain types of messages are sent in Zulip. When one of those events...
zulip helpoutgoingwebhookscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/paragraph-and-section-formatting
Paragraph and section formatting | Zulip help center
zulip helpparagraphsectionformattingcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/protect-your-account
Protect your account | Zulip help center
Every Zulip user has an API key, which can be used to do essentially everything that you can do when you're logged in. You should treat your Zulip API key as...
zulip helpprotectaccountcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/integrations-overview
Integrations overview | Zulip help center
Integrations let you connect Zulip with other products. For example, you can get notification messages in Zulip when an issue in your tracker is updated, or...
zulip helpintegrationsoverviewcenter
https://technical-writers.zulipchat.com/help/
Zulip help center | Zulip help center
Welcome to the help center for Zulip organized team chat! Here, you'll find up-to-date information on how to use Zulip, or administer a Zulip organization....
zulip helpcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/marking-messages-as-unread
Marking messages as unread | Zulip help center
Zulip lets you manually mark messages as unread. Specifically, Zulip offers a Mark as unread from here option, which lets you mark the selected message and all...
zulip helpmarkingmessagesunreadcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/change-the-privacy-of-a-channel
Change the privacy of a channel | Zulip help center
Organization administrators and channel administrators can always make a channel private. However, they can only make a private channel public or web-public if...
zulip helpchangeprivacychannelcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/moving-from-discord
Moving from Discord | Zulip help center
The following steps are described in more detail below:
zulip helpmovingdiscordcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/change-the-channel-description
Change a channel's description | Zulip help center
Channel descriptions can be used to explain the purpose of a channel, and link to usage guidelines, resources, or related channels. They appear in the...
zulip helpchangechanneldescriptioncenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/view-all-bots-in-your-organization
View all bots in your organization | Zulip help center
You can view a list of all bots in your organization, including deactivated bots.
zulip helpviewbotsorganizationcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/tables
Tables | Zulip help center
zulip helptablescenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/configure-who-can-unsubscribe-others
Configure who can unsubscribe anyone from a channel | Zulip help center
Organization administrators and channel administrators can automatically unsubscribe anyone from a channel.
zulip helpconfigureunsubscribeanyonechannel
https://zulip.com:443/help/import-your-settings
Import your settings | Zulip help center
When you create a Zulip account using an email address already associated with an account in another Zulip organization, on Zulip Cloud or the same self-hosted...
zulip helpimportsettingscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/finding-a-conversation-to-read
Finding a conversation to read | Zulip help center
Getting started with Zulip
zulip helpfindingconversationreadcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/connect-through-a-proxy
Connect through a proxy | Zulip help center
Some corporate and university networks may require you to connect to Zulip via a proxy.
zulip helpconnectproxycenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/reading-strategies
Reading strategies | Zulip help center
In Zulip, channels determine who gets a message. Topics tell you what the message is about. If you are not yet familiar with Zulip's topics, we recommend first...
zulip helpreadingstrategiescenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/restrict-message-editing-and-deletion
Restrict message editing and deletion | Zulip help center
Zulip lets you separately configure permissions for editing and deleting messages, and you can set time limits for both actions. Regardless of the...
zulip helprestrictmessageeditingdeletion
https://zulip.com:443/help/change-your-profile-picture
Change your profile picture | Zulip help center
When you first create an account, you'll have an automatically generated profile picture in the style configured by your organization. You can upload a custom...
profile picturezulip helpchangecenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/dm-mention-alert-notifications
DMs, mentions, and alerts | Zulip help center
You can configure desktop, mobile, and email notifications for direct messages (DMs), mentions, and alert words.
zulip helpdmsmentionsalertscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/quote-or-forward-a-message
Quote or forward a message | Zulip help center
Conversations in Zulip are organized by topic, so it's generally clear what you're responding to when you send a message. However, when responding to an older...
zulip helpquoteforwardmessagecenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/dark-theme
Dark theme | Zulip help center
Zulip provides both a light theme and a dark theme, which is great for working in a dark space.
dark themezulip helpcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/writing-tests-for-interactive-bots
Writing tests for interactive bots | Zulip help center
This page gives an overview of the unit testing framework for interactive bots. Bots in the main python-zulip-api repository are required to include a...
writing testszulip helpinteractivebotscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/manage-user-channel-subscriptions
Manage a user's channel subscriptions | Zulip help center
Note: The list of a user's Subscribed channels will be limited to channels you can see.
zulip helpmanageuserchannelsubscriptions
https://zulip.com:443/help/collaborative-to-do-lists
Collaborative to-do lists | Zulip help center
Make sure the compose box is empty.
zulip helpcollaborativelistscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/resize-the-compose-box
Resize the compose box | Zulip help center
When composing a long message, it can be helpful to expand the compose box to display more text and avoid distractions. Note that the compose box also...
zulip helpresizecomposeboxcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/line-spacing
Line spacing | Zulip help center
Zulip lets you adjust line spacing in the web and desktop apps, to make the Zulip interface feel most comfortable for you. Most importantly, this setting...
zulip helplinespacingcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/message-actions
Message actions | Zulip help center
There are many ways to interact with a Zulip message. Here's an overview of the message actions in the web and desktop apps:
zulip helpmessageactionscenter
https://zulip.com/help/contact-support
Contact support | Zulip help center
We're here to help! This page will guide you to the best way to reach us.
zulip helpsupportcenter
https://zulip.com/help/moving-from-teams
Moving from Microsoft Teams | Zulip help center
If you're moving from other communication tools, check out the general guide on moving to Zulip.
microsoft teamszulip helpmovingcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/interactive-bots-api
Interactive bots API | Zulip help center
This page documents functions available to the bot, and the structure of the bot's config file.
zulip helpinteractivebotsapicenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/user-list
User list | Zulip help center
In the Zulip web and desktop app, the right sidebar shows a list of users in your organization. The user list has up to three section:
user listzulip helpcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/organization-type
Organization type | Zulip help center
The organization type is used to customize the experience for users in your organization, including initial organization settings and Welcome Bot messages...
zulip helporganizationtypecenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/deactivate-or-reactivate-a-bot
Deactivate or reactivate a bot | Zulip help center
By default, users can deactivate and reactivate the bots that they add. Organization admins can prevent users from reactivating bots by restricting bot...
zulip helpdeactivatereactivatebotcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/enable-moderation-requests
Enable moderation requests | Zulip help center
When moderation requests are enabled, users can report problematic messages. This sends a message to a private channel, where moderators can review the report....
zulip helpenablemoderationrequestscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/moderating-open-organizations
Community moderation toolkit | Zulip help center
Zulip offers a comprehensive toolkit for moderating communities.
community moderationzulip helptoolkitcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/change-your-name
Change your name | Zulip help center
By default, everyone can change their name in Zulip. You can write your name in any language you'd like.
zulip helpchangenamecenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/unsubscribe-users-from-a-channel
Unsubscribe users from a channel | Zulip help center
Organization administrators can unsubscribe users from any channel. Channel administrators can configure who can unsubscribe anyone from a particular channel.
zulip helpunsubscribeuserschannelcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/spoilers
Spoilers | Zulip help center
(optional) Select the text you want to hide inside the spoiler.
zulip helpspoilerscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/general-chat-topic
“General chat” topic | Zulip help center
Zulip's topics help you keep conversations organized, but you may sometimes want to send a message without a topic. For example, this could be appropriate for...
zulip helptopiccenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/code-blocks
Code blocks | Zulip help center
Zulip's compose box has a smart code () button, which inserts contextually appropriate code formatting:
code blockszulip helpcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/custom-certificates
Use a custom certificate | Zulip help center
By default, Zulip requests a generally-accepted certificate during the server install process, for the server's public hostname. In some cases, a server...
zulip helpusecustomcertificatecenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/user-roles
User roles | Zulip help center
You can also manage permissions with custom user groups.
zulip helpuserrolescenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/marking-messages-as-read
Marking messages as read | Zulip help center
Zulip automatically keeps track of which messages you have and haven't read. Unread messages have a line along the left side, which fades when the message gets...
zulip helpmarkingmessagesreadcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/view-channel-information
View channel information | Zulip help center
When viewing a topic or a channel feed, you can find the name, description and subscriber count for the current channel directly in your message view.
zulip helpviewchannelinformationcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/view-your-mentions
View your mentions | Zulip help center
You can mention a user or a group to call their attention to a message. To make such messages easy to find, Zulip lets you view the messages where you were...
zulip helpviewmentionscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/restrict-permissions-of-new-members
Restrict permissions of new members | Zulip help center
In large Zulip organizations where anyone can join, it can be useful to restrict what new members can do, to make it easier to cope with spammers and confused...
new memberszulip helprestrictpermissionscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/view-your-bots
View your bots | Zulip help center
You can view the bots that you own, including deactivated bots.
zulip helpviewbotscenter
https://technical-writers.zulipchat.com/help/contact-support
Contact support | Zulip help center
We're here to help! This page will guide you to the best way to reach us.
zulip helpsupportcenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/general-chat-channels
“General chat” channels | Zulip help center
Zulip's topics help you keep conversations organized, but you may not need topics in some channels (e.g., a social channel, or one with a narrow purpose).
zulip helpchannelscenter
https://zulip.com:443/help/set-default-channels-for-new-users
Set default channels for new users | Zulip help center
You can configure a default set of channels that users will be subscribed to when they join your organization. Default channels must be public or web-public....
set defaultnew userszulip helpchannelscenter