--- schema_version: "1" id: 7ac54899874b7036eb498ef3f9e3f4607a9bee3c328b34080989465596589422 title: Chatter Settings collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/experience/264-0-0/collab_enable.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_enable.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: 66b3c107f62d9f6e227a961ba26ddcb7f839ec38df5812ed8c33655822a8f371 description: Configure various Chatter features and customize the Chatter experience for your users on the Chatter Settings page in Setup. products: - Experiences release: "264" --- # Chatter Settings Configure various Chatter features and customize the Chatter experience for your users on the Chatter Settings page in Setup. ### Required Editions
Available in: Essentials, Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Contact Manager, Developer, and Database.com Editions
![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-collaboration-264-0-0-production-enus/1aab5b5e-c990-4b8c-840a-6fb18af49709/images/icon_note.png) Note Beginning in Summer ’26, Chatter is turned off by default in all new orgs. For any features in these orgs that require access to Chatter functionality or the Chatter APIs, turn on Chatter by going to **Setup** | **Chatter Settings** and selecting **Enable**. For details, see [Chatter Is Turned Off by Default in New Orgs Beginning in Summer ’26](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_chatter_default_off.htm&type=5&language=en_US). - **[Chatter Group Settings](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_admin_group_settings.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Use Chatter group settings to configure group features like group archiving, records in groups, and unlisted groups. - **[Set the Format of Timestamps on Case Feed Posts](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_admin_casefeed_dateandtime.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** In case feeds show users a relative timestamp on new posts, like 10m ago, or an absolute timestamp, like January 7, 2020 at 12:15PM. Comments and replies are also shown with relative timestamps. - **[Convert Character Combinations into Emoticons in the Feed](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_admin_emoticons.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Emoticons let your users enter character combinations in their posts and comments to create expressions. - **[Let Users Set Out-of-Office Messages in Chatter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_admin_out_of_office.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Let your users schedule and customize an out-of-office message, and place it next to their name in Chatter. You can enable or disable this feature in Setup, under Chatter Settings. Setting an out-of-office message is available only in Lightning Experience. - **[Customer Invitations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_external_enabling.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Let users invite customers to the private groups that they own or manage. Customers are users outside your company's email domains. They have limited Chatter access and can see only the groups that they're invited to. They can interact only with members of those groups. - **[Coworker Invitations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_admin_coworker_invitations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Salesforce users can invite coworkers without Salesforce licenses to Chatter. Invited users can access Chatter people, profiles, groups, and files, but users without a Salesforce license can’t see record data. - **[Enable Add Actions in the Chatter Publisher](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_admin_actions_enable.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** In Salesforce Classic, before you can add global actions to the Chatter publisher, you must first enable the Actions in the Publisher feature in Chatter Settings. Actions add functionality to the Chatter publisher and let your users do more in Salesforce across every device. - **[Feed Post and Comments Editing Overview](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_admin_feed_post_editing.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** With feed post editing, users can edit their own feed posts. Record owners can also edit any post on records they own, no matter who created the post. #### See Also - [Salesforce Chatter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_setting_up.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "With Chatter, users can collaborate on sales opportunities, service cases, campaigns, and projects with embedded apps and custom actions. Salesforce channels, which bring Slack into Salesforce, are another way to collaborate on records. In new orgs created in Summer ’26 and later, Salesforce channels are enabled by default, and Chatter is disabled. You can enable Chatter in these orgs if necessary, and you can continue to use Chatter in existing orgs.") - [Topics Privacy](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_topics_privacy.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Topic names and descriptions are not private, even for topics that appear solely in private groups and on records. Posts and records with topics have the same security and privacy as posts and records without topics.")