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user docs: Add delete-a-topic.
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# Delete a topic
{!admin-only.md!}
We generally recommend against deleting topics, but there are a few
situations in which it can be useful:
* Clearing out test messages after setting up an organization.
* Clearing out messages from an overly enthusiastic bot.
* Managing abuse.
In most other cases, [renaming a topic](/help/rename-a-topic) is often a
better idea, or just leaving the topic as is. Deleting a topic can confuse
users who come to the topic later via an email notification.
help: Clarify that deleting a topic also deletes messages with that topic.
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Note that deleting a topic also deletes every message with that topic,
whereas [deleting a stream](/help/delete-a-stream) does not.
help: Update delete-a-topic.
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### Delete a topic
{start_tabs}
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1. Hover over the topic in the **left sidebar**.
help: Update help docs for ellipsis. Update help docs where chevron was previously mentioned for sidebar manu icons. Add css for `i.zulip-icon` to position icon properly.
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1. Click the ellipsis (<i class="zulip-icon ellipsis-v-solid"></i>).
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popovers: Change "Delete all messages in topic" to "Delete topic". This cleans up the copy a bit to be more readable. Documentation changes cleaned up by tabbott. Fixes #16856.
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1. Click **Delete topic**.
user docs: Add delete-a-topic.
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popovers: Change "Delete all messages in topic" to "Delete topic". This cleans up the copy a bit to be more readable. Documentation changes cleaned up by tabbott. Fixes #16856.
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1. Click **Delete topic** in the confirmation dialog.
help: Update delete-a-topic.
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{end_tabs}
help: Clarify that deleting a topic also deletes messages with that topic.
2019-05-16 01:41:02 +02:00
popovers: Change "Delete all messages in topic" to "Delete topic". This cleans up the copy a bit to be more readable. Documentation changes cleaned up by tabbott. Fixes #16856.
2020-12-16 05:41:46 +01:00
Note that deleting all of the individual messages within a particular
topic also deletes that topic. Structurally, topics are simply an
attribute of messages in Zulip.
docs: Document message retention policies. We've completed the production performance testing that had been blocking us from advertising this feature, so we're declaring the feature implemented by documenting it. As of this commit, you need to edit fields using `manage.py shell` to configure it and manually configure the cron job, but those should be addressed in the next few days. Fixes #106.
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## Related articles
* [Edit or delete a message](/help/edit-or-delete-a-message)
* [Delete a stream](/help/delete-a-stream)
* [Message retention policy](/help/message-retention-policy)