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What Your Chatter Group Role Lets You Do

The actions that you can perform in a Chatter group depend on whether you’re a member, owner, or manager of the group.

Required Editions

Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: Group, Essentials, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Developer, and Contact Manager Editions
User Permissions Needed
To create groups Create and Own New Chatter Groups

This table describes the actions that are available to members, managers, and owners of public and private Chatter groups. Customers can be group members and managers, but not owners.

Action Owner Manager Member
Post, comment, and search group feeds Check Check Check
Add and remove records in groups (if configured) Check Check Check
Post group announcements Check Check  
Delete posts and comments Check Check  
Add and remove members Check Check  
Change member roles Check Check  
Edit group settings Check Check  
Edit the Information field Check Check  
Archive groups and activate archived groups Check Check  
Change group owner Check    
Delete group Check    

Users with the Modify All Data permission can perform all actions on all private and public groups. Users with the View All Data permission can view details of all private and public groups, regardless of membership.

In unlisted groups:

  • Users with the Manage Unlisted Groups permission can perform all of these actions in unlisted groups, even if they aren’t members.
  • Users with the Modify All Data or View All Data permission can find and access unlisted groups only if they are members. Unlike public and private groups, users with the Modify All Data permission can’t perform group owner actions in unlisted groups. If the Modify All Data user has the group manager role in the unlisted group, then they can perform group manager actions.