Mattermost User’s Guide

End user help and documentation.

Getting Started

• Welcome to Mattermost!
  • What is Mattermost?
  • The Basics
  • Teams
  • Channels
  • Messages
  • Search
  • Notifications
  • What’s Next?
• Signing In
  • Accessing your Mattermost Workspace
  • Sign In
  • Sign In Methods
  • Switching Teams
  • Logging Out
  • iOS Setup
  • Android Setup
• Setting Your Status and Availability
  • Setting a Custom Status
  • Clearing a Custom Status
  • Setting Your Availability
• Messaging Basics
• Configuring Notifications
  • Desktop Notifications
  • Email Notifications
  • Mobile Push Notifications
  • Browser Tab Notifications
  • Muting a Channel
  • Ignoring Mentions
• Managing Channels
  • Creating a channel
  • Creating a Direct or Group Message
  • Joining a channel
  • Adding members to a channel
  • Removing members from a channel
  • Naming a channel
  • Leaving a channel
  • Archiving a channel
  • Unarchiving a channel
  • Converting Public channels to Private channels (and vice versa)
  • Favoriting a channel
  • Muting and unmuting a channel
  • Switching channels
  • Navigating recently viewed channels
• Organizing Your Sidebar
  • Channel types
  • Customizing your sidebar
  • Creating custom categories
  • Organizing channels in categories
  • Muting and unmuting categories
  • Sorting channels in categories
  • Group unread channels separately
  • Managing Direct Messages
• Searching
  • Searching for Message Contents
  • Searching for File Contents
  • Search Modifiers
  • Hashtags
  • Notes About All Searches
  • Technical Notes
• Creating Teams
  • Methods to Create a Team
  • Team Name and URL Selection
  • Best Practices for Using a Single Team vs. Multiple Teams
• Managing Members
  • Inviting Team Members
  • User Roles
  • Removing a User from a Team or Leaving a Team
• Organizing Mattermost
  • The importance of channel names
  • How to navigate and organize channels
  • Channel naming examples
• Keyboard Accessibility
  • Region Navigation
  • Message Navigation
  • Channel Sidebar Navigation
• Using Mattermost Desktop App
  • Server Management
  • App Options

Messaging

• Messages
  • Sending Messages
  • Replying to Messages
  • Editing Messages
  • Deleting Messages
  • Linking to Messages
  • Marking Messages as Unread
• Using Emojis
  • Adding Emojis to messages
  • Accessing Alternate Skin Tones
• Mentioning Teammates
  • @Mentions
  • Words That Trigger Mentions
  • Recent Mentions
  • Confirmation Dialog Warnings
  • Highlighting
• Formatting Text
  • Text Style
  • Links
  • Headings
  • Lists
  • Code Block
  • In-line Code
  • In-line Images
  • Lines
  • Block quotes
  • Tables
  • Math Formulas
• Sharing Files
  • Attach Files to Messages
  • Preview File Attachments
  • Attachment Limits and Sizes
• Executing Commands
  • Built-in Commands
  • Custom Commands
• Saving Messages
  • Saving a Message
  • Viewing Saved Messages
  • Unsaving Messages
• Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Navigation
  • Files
  • Messages
  • Formatting
  • Browser Built-in
• Pinning Messages
  • Pin a Message
  • Unpin a Message

Settings

• Account Settings
• Theme Colors
• Channel Settings
• Team Settings
• Custom Emoji
• Integrations