Update team settings docs for Public/Private cards and membership tab…

[pvev]

Summary

Follow-up to #9105, addressing this review comment: the Team Settings Access tab UI changed in v11.10 and the end-user docs still described the old layout.

Two things shipped in v11.10 that the docs didn't reflect:

1. The Allow any user to join this team checkbox was replaced by Public Team / Private Team selection cards. This applies to every team on every deployment, not just ABAC ones.
2. The Team Settings sidebar gained a Team Membership tab, and the existing Membership Policies tab was renamed Channel Membership to disambiguate the two.

While covering that, I swept the rest of the docs for stale references to both and fixed what turned up.

Changes

end-user-guide/collaborate/team-settings.rst — the main update.

• New Discoverability section replacing Users on this server, documenting the Public/Private cards. Placed above the email-domain subsection to match the actual UI order.
• Note explaining the cards replace the old checkbox, with the equivalence spelled out (Public = checkbox on, Private = checkbox off).
• Callout that switching Public → Private regenerates the team invite code and invalidates previously shared links.
• Membership Policies renamed to Channel Membership, with a rename note.
• New Team Membership section.

end-user-guide/collaborate/organize-using-teams.rst

• Fixed a :ref: pointing at the removed users-on-this-server anchor. This would have broken the build.
• Note under Join a team covering the Recommended marker on public teams matching your attributes.

administration-guide/manage/admin/abac-channel-access-rules.rst

• Two stale "Membership Policies tab" references, plus the sync interval corrected from 30 to 60 minutes to match SyncJobIntervalSeconds (default 3600s) and stay consistent with the Team Membership page.

end-user-guide/collaborate/learn-about-roles.rst

• The Team Admin privilege list only mentioned channel policies; added the team membership capability and named both tabs.

administration-guide/onboard/advanced-permissions-backend-infrastructure.rst

• manage_team_access_rules was described as covering only channel policies. It gates both tabs.

security-guide/zero-trust.rst

• An entry labelled "Team membership policies" actually described channel policies. Relabelled, and added a real entry for team membership access policies.

administration-guide/configure/user-management-configuration-settings.rst

• This page documents every toggle in the System Console Team Management panel except Manage membership with attribute based membership policies, which two other pages document as a required setup step. Added it, following the page's existing pattern.

Ticket Link

https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-69100

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[amyblais]

@pvev I rebased this to the "master" branch as the v11.10-docs branch has already been merged to master.

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Walkthrough

The documentation distinguishes attribute-based team membership policies from channel membership policies. It adds configuration steps, updates Team Settings terminology, documents team discoverability and access behaviour, and describes policy evaluation in the Zero Trust guide.

Changes

ABAC Membership Documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Administration policy terminology and configuration source/administration-guide/configure/user-management-configuration-settings.rst, source/administration-guide/manage/admin/abac-channel-access-rules.rst, source/administration-guide/onboard/advanced-permissions-backend-infrastructure.rst	The administration guides document attribute-based team membership configuration, rename the channel policy tab to Channel Membership, and update the related permission description.
Team access and settings guidance source/end-user-guide/collaborate/team-settings.rst, source/end-user-guide/collaborate/organize-using-teams.rst	The guides document team access cards, team and channel membership settings, invite-code behaviour, discoverability, and team-joining results.
Roles and Zero Trust policy descriptions source/end-user-guide/collaborate/learn-about-roles.rst, source/security-guide/zero-trust.rst	The guides describe team-admin policy management and distinguish continuous enforcement for private teams and channels from advisory behaviour for public teams.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c8925

This documentation-only change updates team settings terminology and navigation guidance; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main documentation updates for Public/Private team cards and the membership tab.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the v11.10 documentation updates and the related corrections across affected pages.
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Inline comments:
In
`@source/administration-guide/configure/user-management-configuration-settings.rst`:
- Around line 458-472: Update
source/administration-guide/configure/user-management-configuration-settings.rst:458-472
to distinguish advisory public-team ABAC behavior from enforced private-team
behavior. Update source/end-user-guide/collaborate/team-settings.rst:122-128 to
document Channel Membership policies for both public and private channels.
Update source/security-guide/zero-trust.rst:35-35 to limit automatic member
removal to private channels and describe recommendations or automatic additions
for public channels.

In `@source/end-user-guide/collaborate/team-settings.rst`:
- Around line 68-71: Update the Public Team description in
source/end-user-guide/collaborate/team-settings.rst at lines 68-71 to clarify
that discoverability does not guarantee joining and that approved email-domain
or other join restrictions may still apply. Also update the rejoining statement
in source/end-user-guide/collaborate/organize-using-teams.rst at line 112 to
qualify it with applicable join restrictions.

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• source/end-user-guide/collaborate/learn-about-roles.rst
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[marianunez]

Thanks @pvev!

[marianunez]

Should we include that this can also be done in the team settings fpr team admins ?

[marianunez]

@pvev is this still valid? It seems we lost this section