Channel Capabilities

Channel capabilities lets clients understand which features are available. Each channel payload contains the own_capabilities field which is essentially a list of actions that user is allowed to perform.

Channel capabilities are affected by a number of factors including:

Capabilities is the preferred way of deciding which actions should be available in the user interface.

Please avoid performing comparisons like user.role == 'user' in your client code and rely on Channel Capabilities instead. This makes your code more flexible and adaptive to your app configuration

Channel Capabilities

Name	What it indicates
ban-channel-members	Ability to ban channel members
connect-events	Ability to receive connect events
create-call	Ability to create a call
delete-any-message	Ability to delete any message from the channel
delete-channel	Ability to delete channel
delete-own-message	Ability to delete own messages from the channel
flag-message	Ability to flag a message
freeze-channel	Ability to freeze or unfreeze channel
join-call	Ability to join a call
join-channel	Ability to join channel (add own membership)
leave-channel	Ability to leave channel (remove own membership)
mute-channel	Ability to mute a channel
pin-message	Ability to pin a message
quote-message	Ability to quote a message
read-events	Ability to receive read events
search-messages	Ability to use message search
send-custom-events	Ability to send custom events
send-links	Ability to attach links to messages
send-message	Ability to send a message
send-reaction	Ability to send reactions
send-reply	Ability to reply to a message
send-typing-events	Ability to send typing events
set-channel-cooldown	Ability to enable or disable slow mode
skip-slow-mode	Indicates that the user is allowed to post messages as usual even if the channel is in slow more
slow-mode	Indicates that channel slow mode is active
typing-events	Ability to send and receive typing events
update-any-message	Ability to update any message in the channel
update-channel	Ability to update channel data
update-channel-members	Ability to update channel members
update-own-message	Ability to update own messages in the channel
upload-file	Ability to upload message attachments

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