EE: Message Editing & Deletion configure option
Enable configuration of editing and deleting options in Enterprise Edition
Under "System Console > Policy"
Setting one (with radio buttons):
Allow users to edit their messages:
[ x ] Any time
[ ] Never
[ ] ___ minutes after posting //Where ___ is a text input box where they can enter a number of minutes
Help Text: After posting a message, set the length of time the author has to edit it.
- Setting two (with radio buttons):
Allow which users to delete messages:
[ x ] Only Team Administrators and System Administrators
[ ] Message authors can delete their own messages, and Administrators can delete any message
Help text: Set who has permission to delete messages.
Kiran
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Now available in Mattermost 3.7 as after of policy features in E10 and higher.
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@Kiran: The feature is available as part of advanced policy options in Enterprise Edition E10 and E20.
Here is some brief documentation about these settings: https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/config-settings.html#allow-which-users-to-delete-messages
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Kiran
commented
We are on Mattermost Enterprise Edition Version: 4.1.0
Where is this feature ?.. Is this missing in latest version ?
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Flo
commented
It is helpfull so people cannot be abusive and change the message later on
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Kiran
commented
7 months completed.. No progress on this change :(
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Jonathan
commented
Please add this!!! This is a deal breaker for my team in using this at an enterprise level. We love mattermost, and would love to deploy it. The new design sounds great, though we will probably just completely disable editing of comments, unless edit history is preserved. Can you clarify whether or not any sort of edit history is kept?
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Kiran
commented
Can we except this change https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/PLT-1555
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fjarlq
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When editing has been completely disabled by the admin, I would expect the up-arrow key to simply do nothing in the clients. (Currently up-arrow causes the editing window to come up)
The reason I mention this specifically is I would like to bind the up-arrow key to something else someday. (specifically: channel history browsing)
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fjarlq
commented
The proposed design would suffice for my community's needs.
Specifically, I would completely disallow editing of messages, and I would restrict deletion of messages as much as possible.
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Grzegorz
commented
It is impossible to use Mattermost for serious communication not knowing that messages sent will not be deleted.
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Anonymous
commented
Mattermost is awesome, we just need this to use in production company wide.
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Kiran
commented
@Product manager:- Please consider this change and make it available in the near future release..
Thanks
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jbick commented
+3
The lack of this feature keeps us from setting up a mattermost server for cross-company communication where it is very important to keep a correct history. -
Rick
commented
Came here to request the same feature.
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Lucy
commented
+1
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Kiran
commented
Thanks for response.
Internal team communications..
We had moved from slack to matttermost,Our team is very happy with mattermost.
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Thanks Kiran, so we can prioritize, can you share your intended usage with this feature--is it more like an online open source project working with strangers, or more with a close knit team at a company for example, or for a different audience all together?
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Kiran
commented
I prefer "last edited" ..
And also need to restrict the user to edit/delete the message up to certain time.
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Thanks everyone for the feedback on this,
Can you help us understand whether this feature would be more or less useful to you compared with a "last edited" indicator and a full history of the edits made to a message?
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William
commented
Need this functionality
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Manohari
commented
Yes.. It shouldn't be full delete
Deleted message should be hide... Author name and timestamp should remain as it is.
Like..
ZZZ_user 4:34PM
_This message is deleted_