This is typically the person who set up the group.
Hipchat identify room owner.
It would be a great and simple feature to include the identify of the room owner in the hipchat standalone application.
Hipchat admins are different animals and are presumably it folks at larger companies.
The options that follow in the documentation never appear for me.
This article describes how to identify which user was set as the owner in a hipchat server environment and how to change it.
The instructions on the documentation page for transferring room owner do not work.
See the accepted answer.
Table of contents solution.
A hipchat group has an owner.
The owner user can be identified in a number of ways which are outlined below from easiest to most advanced.
There is a room admin for each room usually the creator.
While the owner account has chat and admin capability we strongly encourage you to create a personal account for chatting and use the owner account for team management only.
We have hundreds if not thousands of rooms and probably only a 1 2 hipchat.
I don t know any of them and wouldn t want to bother them with room admin issues.
A hipchat team has a single owner which is usually the person who set up the team.
When i click on the rooms tab my browser window hangs for a long time on services starting then it brings me to a use hipchat in your browser window which just launches the web version.
Think of the owner as the account holder responsible for billing.
Your group administrator s if they have permission to be in the room you re trying to remove someone from or the room admin will see this dialogue when they click the remove from room.
The chat history retention settings for a group or room.
Hipchat offers these roles to support your it access security needs allowing you to assign certain permissions to certain users.