---
title: Create a channel
type: how-to
section: spaces
summary: Choose Create channel in the Space you want, name it, pick who can open it, then choose Create.
applies_to:
  clients: [web]
sources:
  - evolve-front-end/components/team-chat/dialogs/team-chat-create-room-dialog.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/components/team-chat/page-nav/space-action-menu-content.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/components/team-chat/space-admin/space-channels-tab.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/app/i18n/locales/en/team-chat.json
verified:
  at: 2026-09-04
  env: code
  by: content-lane-spaces
ttl_days: 45
related: [spaces/channels-and-sub-channels, spaces/add-people-to-a-channel, spaces/create-a-space]
aliases: [team-chat/create-a-channel, spaces/create-a-room]
---

1. Select the Space in the destination rail.
2. Choose **New channel** on the Space menu beside the Space name. The plus button on a channel group heading and the **Channels** tab in Space administration open the same dialog, and the rail's own button is labelled **Create channel**.
3. Enter a name in **Channel name**.
4. Optional: describe the channel in **Purpose**.
5. Under **Membership**, choose **Everyone in this Space** or **Invite only**.
6. Choose **Create**.

The channel opens once it is created. **Space** shows which Space the channel goes into and is decided by where you started; it is not a choice in the dialog. New channels are created with type **Channel** and classification **Internal**.

If you chose **Invite only**, nobody else can open the channel until you add them. See [Add people to a channel](/help/spaces/add-people-to-a-channel).

## Add a sub-channel instead

To put a channel under an existing one, choose **Add sub-channel** on the parent channel's row. The dialog is titled **New sub-channel** and says **Under {{parentName}}. Members come from this parent channel's eligibility pool.** Fill in **Sub-channel name** and choose **Create**.

## If it did not work

- **Channel was not created. Retry when access is ready.** means the Space's storage or access was not ready. Wait a moment and choose **Create** again.
- **This account is not authorized to create channels.** means your account does not hold that permission in this Space. Ask a Space administrator.
- **No Spaces available** with **Create a Space first, then return here to add its first channel.** means you belong to no Space that accepts a new channel. See [Create a Space](/help/spaces/create-a-space).
- **Select a Space for the new channel.** means the dialog was opened without a Space in context. Select a Space in the rail first.