Topic membership affects topic permissions. In this article, you will learn how to manage members on a topic: control topic membership inheritance behavior, add or remove topics, and assign roles to users in a topic.
This article assumes you've already had a basic understanding of how topic permissions work. If not, no worries, this article explains it all.
Who can edit topic membership?
Users who have topic edit permission in a specific topic can edit the topic's membership. Exactly who has topic edit permission depends on the topic's permission settings.
Viewing & editing membership
To view or edit members in a topic:
Go to the topic
Click the … menu in the top-right corner
Click Members
Adding teammates, groups, or inheriting from the parent topic
Click on the input at the bottom labeled Add other members
Search for a teammate, or a group using the auto-complete; Or choose the parent topic name to inherit its members
Editing individual membership
To promote, demote and delete a member:
Hover on a topic member
Click the … menu on the right side
Click Make owner, Revoke ownership, or Remove from topic
Access requests
To approve, or decline a topic access request:
Hover on a requester
Click the … menu on the right side
Click Grant access or Decline access