The instructions on the documentation page for transferring room owner do not work.
Hipchat identify room owner.
When i click on the rooms tab my browser window hangs for a long time on services starting then it brings me to a use hipchat in your browser window which just launches the web version.
This is typically the person who set up the group.
This article describes how to identify which user was set as the owner in a hipchat server environment and how to change it.
Think of the owner as the account holder responsible for billing.
A hipchat team has a single owner which is usually the person who set up the team.
A hipchat group has an owner.
The owner user can be identified in a number of ways which are outlined below from easiest to most advanced.
This is not true.
Table of contents solution.
Hipchat admins are different animals and are presumably it folks at larger companies.
Your group administrator s if they have permission to be in the room you re trying to remove someone from or the room admin will see this dialogue when they click the remove from room.
There is a room admin for each room usually the creator.
It would be a great and simple feature to include the identify of the room owner in the hipchat standalone application.
The roles below are listed from the highest level of permissions owner to the lowest level of permissions user.
Currently the only way to identify the owner of a hipchat room is to go in via the browser and search which is very inconvenient for those who work in a large enterprise and live in the hipchat application.
While the owner account has chat and admin capability we strongly encourage you to create a personal account for chatting and use the owner account for team management only.
I don t know any of them and wouldn t want to bother them with room admin issues.
Hipchat offers these roles to support your it access security needs allowing you to assign certain permissions to certain users.
We have hundreds if not thousands of rooms and probably only a 1 2 hipchat.