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Resolve a topic

Zulip's topics are very helpful for customer support, answering questions, investigating issues and production errors, as well as other workflows. Resolving topics makes it easy to track the status of each question, investigation, or notification.

Marking a topic as resolved:

  • Puts a ✔ at the beginning of the topic name, e.g., example topic becomes ✔ example topic.
  • Triggers an automated notice from the notification bot indicating that you resolved the topic. This message will be marked as unread only for users who had participated in the topic.
  • Changes whether the topic appears when using the is:resolved and -is:resolved search filters.

Marking a topic as unresolved removes the ✔ and also triggers an automated notice from the notification bot.

It's often helpful to define a policy for when to resolve topics that fits how topics are used in a given channel. Here are some common approaches for deciding when to mark a topic as resolved:

  • Support: When the support interaction is complete. Resolving topics is particularly useful for internal support teams that might not need a dedicated support ticket tracker.
  • Issues, errors and production incidents: When investigation or incident response is complete, and any follow-up work has been transferred to the appropriate tracker.
  • Workflow management: When the work described in the topic is complete and any follow-ups have been transcribed.
  • Answering questions: When the question has been fully answered, and follow-ups would be best discussed in a new topic.

Users can resolve and unresolve a topic if they have permission to edit topics. Organization administrators can configure who can edit topics.

Mark a topic as resolved

{start_tabs}

{tab|desktop-web}

{!topic-actions.md!}

  1. Select Mark as resolved.

!!! tip ""

You can also click on the **✔** icon in the message recipient bar to
mark an unresolved topic as resolved.

{tab|mobile}

{!topic-long-press-menu.md!}

  1. Tap Resolve topic.

{!topic-long-press-menu-tip.md!}

{end_tabs}

Mark a topic as unresolved

Marking a topic as unresolved normally triggers an automated notice from the notification bot. However, unresolving a topic right after you resolved it removes the original notice instead. This is helpful if you resolved a topic by accident.

{start_tabs}

{tab|desktop-web}

{!topic-actions.md!}

  1. Select Mark as unresolved.

!!! tip ""

You can also click on the **✔** icon in the message recipient bar to
mark a resolved topic as unresolved.

{tab|mobile}

{!topic-long-press-menu.md!}

  1. Tap Unresolve topic.

{!topic-long-press-menu-tip.md!}

{end_tabs}

Search for messages in unresolved topics

{start_tabs}

{tab|desktop-web}

  1. Click the search () icon in the top bar to open the search box.

  2. Type -is:resolved, or start typing and select Exclude topics marked as resolved from the typeahead.

  3. (optional) Enter additional search terms or filters.

  4. Press Enter.

!!! keyboard_tip ""

You can also use the <kbd>/</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>K</kbd>
keyboard shortcut to start searching messages.

{end_tabs}

!!! tip ""

To get a feed of unread messages in all unresolved topics, search for
`is:unresolved is:unread`.

Search for messages in resolved topics

{start_tabs}

{tab|desktop-web}

  1. Click the search () icon in the top bar to open the search box.

  2. Type is:resolved, or start typing and select Topics marked as resolved from the typeahead.

  3. (optional) Enter additional search terms or filters.

  4. Press Enter.

!!! keyboard_tip ""

You can also use the <kbd>/</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>K</kbd>
keyboard shortcut to start searching messages.

{end_tabs}

Details

  • Resolving a topic works by moving the messages to a new topic.
  • Like with all topic editing, Zulip clients update instantly, so human users will likely only send messages to the resolved topic.
  • Integrations will usually send new messages to the original topic (example topic) after a topic is resolved. This is useful for alerting integrations, where a repeating alert might have a different cause. You can mark the topic resolved (as normal) once you've investigated the situation.
  • Users can still send messages to a resolved topic; this is important for "thank you" messages and to discuss whether the topic was incorrectly marked as resolved.

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