Create a team channel, open or private
Make a new channel for a team or a subject, and choose whether everyone can join or only the people you add.
Open Channels and click New channel. Type a short name, tick Private if only the people you add should see it, pick them, and press Create.
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Step by step
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Make a channel for a team or a subject, like lab cases or billing questions. Click New channel.
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Type a short name.
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Leave it open, so anyone in the company can join. Or tick Private, so only the people you add can see it.
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Then pick the people for a private channel.
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Create makes the channel, and opens it. Here, we do not create it.
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Click New channel again, to fold the form without creating anything.
Anyone in the company can create a channel. An open channel is visible to everyone; a private one only to its members, owners included.
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