# Staff Chat

{% hint style="info" %}
This functionality requires the DiscordSRV plugin
{% endhint %}

You can use the discord integration plugin to setup a staff-chat channel and synchronize messages between in-game and discord chat.\
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To do so you must have the DiscordSRV bot configured as described here: <https://docs.dedicatedmc.io/plugins-mods/how-to-install-discordsrv/>\
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Once this is setup you can start setting up Staff++ Discord.

### **Discord setup**

Go into Discord and create a new channel. The channel name can be whatever you want.

![](/files/-MVWbrULqKVH6iu6Nect)

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Go ahead an grab the **channel id** by right clicking on the channel name and selecting **copy id:**

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### DiscordSRV Configuration

Open the **config.yml** file of the DiscordSRV plugin. Add your channel id to the channels array.\
The identifier inside the array must be **"staffplusplus-\<channelname>" .** By default staff++ only has one staffchat channel, name "staffchat". So in this case I will configure "**staffplusplus-staffchat**".\
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If you have for example another channel configured in staff++ called **"adminchat",** you can add another channel in the discordsrv config called "**staffplusplus-adminchat**".<br>

```yaml
Channels: { "global": "000000000000000000", "staffplusplus-staffchat": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"}
```

#### Channel custom formatting

In DiscordSRV you can have custom formatting for every channel differently. To have custom formatting inside DiscordSRV open up the language file inside the `messages` folder of DiscordSRV

```yaml
MinecraftChatToDiscordMessageFormat: "**%primarygroup%** %displayname% » %message%"
MinecraftChatToDiscordMessageFormatNoPrimaryGroup: "%displayname% » %message%"

MinecraftChatToDiscordMessageFormat_staffplusplus-staffchat: "**(STAFFCHAT)** %displayname% » %message%"
MinecraftChatToDiscordMessageFormatNoPrimaryGroup_staffplusplus-staffchat: "**(STAFFCHAT)** %displayname% » %message%"
```

You can set a format for your specific channel by adding `MinecraftChatToDiscordMessageFormat_staffplusplus-staffchat`

### Staff++ Discord Configuration

Open the config.yml of the Staff++ plugin. And enable staffchat sync.

```yaml
StaffPlusPlusDiscord:
  staffchat:
    sync: true
```

That's it! Restart your server and you will be see that message in game get displayed inside your discord channel and vice versa. &#x20;

### Example messages

![](/files/-MVWjhM7I0S3lYZsPKeS)

![](/files/-MVWjwIRiPvluRGgz4qQ)


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