Rocketchat: Create Channels with Human Readable Names

In Rocketchat, by default, names of the rooms (channels) can contain only uppercase letters, numbers and symbols “-”, “_”. And this is not very convenient. You can make it possible to create groups with human readable names. To meet the purpose, you need to set a variable in rocketchat settings to true. The setting variable name is UI_Allow_room_names_with_specal_chars.

First, run this command in mongo shell to make sure that this setting is set to false.

db.rocketchat_settings.find({_id:'UI_Allow_room_names_with_special_chars'});

(this should show a value set to false in your case)

Now Run

db.rocketchat_settings.update({_id:'UI_Allow_room_names_with_special_chars'}, {$set: {'value' : true} });

This should output something like this.

WriteResult({ "nMatched" : 1, "nUpserted" : 0, "nModified" : 1 })

We’re DONE :)