# De/Re-activate Room

## POST /v1/room/{id}/setActive

> Deactivate or reactivate a chatroom. At creation, a new chatroom is active.

```json
{"openapi":"3.1.1","info":{"title":"Pod API","version":"20.17.1"},"servers":[{"url":"http://yourpodURL.symphony.com/pod"}],"paths":{"/v1/room/{id}/setActive":{"post":{"summary":"Deactivate or reactivate a chatroom. At creation, a new chatroom is active.","parameters":[{"schema":{"type":"string"},"name":"id","description":"Room streamId","in":"path","required":true},{"schema":{"type":"boolean"},"name":"active","in":"query","required":true},{"schema":{"type":"string"},"name":"sessionToken","description":"Session authentication token.","in":"header","required":true}],"tags":["Streams"],"responses":{"200":{"description":"OK","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/RoomDetail"}}}},"400":{"description":"Client error, see response body for further details.","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Error"}}}},"401":{"description":"Unauthorized: Invalid session token.","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Error"}}}},"403":{"description":"Forbidden: Caller lacks necessary entitlement.","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Error"}}}},"500":{"description":"Server error, see response body for further details.","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Error"}}}}}}}},"components":{"schemas":{"RoomDetail":{"type":"object","properties":{"roomAttributes":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/RoomAttributes"},"roomSystemInfo":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/RoomSystemInfo"},"immutableRoomAttributes":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/ImmutableRoomAttributes"}}},"RoomAttributes":{"type":"object","properties":{"name":{"type":"string","description":"Room name."},"description":{"type":"string","description":"Room description."},"membersCanInvite":{"type":"boolean","description":"If true, any chatroom participant can add new participants. If false, only owners can add new participants."},"discoverable":{"type":"boolean","description":"If true, this chatroom (name, description and messages) can be searched and listed by non-participants. If false, only participants can search this room."}}},"RoomSystemInfo":{"type":"object","properties":{"id":{"type":"string"},"creationDate":{"type":"integer","format":"int64","description":"The datetime when the stream was originally created. Milliseconds since Jan 1 1970."},"createdByUserId":{"type":"integer","format":"int64"},"active":{"type":"boolean","description":"If false, no messages can be sent in this stream, and membership is locked."}}},"ImmutableRoomAttributes":{"type":"object","description":"These attributes cannot be changed once the room has been created","properties":{"public":{"type":"boolean","description":"If true, this is a public chatroom. IF false, a private chatroom."},"readOnly":{"type":"boolean","description":"If true, only stream owners can send messages."},"copyProtected":{"type":"boolean","description":"If true, clients disable the clipboard copy for content in this stream."}}},"Error":{"type":"object","properties":{"code":{"type":"integer","format":"int32"},"message":{"type":"string"}}}}}}
```

> #### 🚧 Rules and limitations
>
> Only rooms with members can be reactivated

> #### 📘 Room ID
>
> The room ID can be located in the Symphony web or desktop client by clicking on the timestamp of any message in the conversation. This will open the Message Status module overlay, and the Conversation ID can be found in the overlay footer.
>
> The room ID in the UI is in Standard Base64 encoding. When the room ID needs to be used in a URL, it should be in URLSafe Base64 encoding. To obtain the URLSafe Base64 room ID, replace forward slashes with underscores, replace pluses with minuses, and ignore any trailing equal signs.
>
> See [Overview of Streams](https://docs.developers.symphony.com/building-bots-on-symphony/datafeed/overview-of-streams) for details.

> #### 🚧 Required Permissions
>
> **External Rooms that have not been created by your company cannot be de/re-activated.**\
> Rooms can only be de/re-activated by:
>
> * Owners of the room
> * Compliance Officers and Super Compliance Officers who are not members of the room
> * Service Users with the User Provisioning role (members or not members of the room)
>
> See [Bot Permissions](https://docs.developers.symphony.com/building-bots-on-symphony/configuration/bot-permissions) for a list of roles and associated privileges.