enableChannel

Description

Enables/disables UI functionality which is responsible for sending text or voice chat to the given chat channel.

Note
This command:

can override Description.ext or server config's channel setting

cannot disable Global channel for the admin or server host, because Global channel is always available for the admin

does not disable incoming text or voice

actively interrupts (since Arma 3 v2.02) the current communication in progress

does not affect chat related scripting commands such as vehicleChat, globalRadio etc.

Channel ID number correspondence
Default Channels	Custom Channels
Global	Side	Command	Group	Vehicle	Direct	CC 1	CC 2	CC 3	CC 4	CC 5	CC 6	CC 7	CC 8	CC 9	CC 10
0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15

Syntax

Syntax 1

channelID enableChannel enable

Parameters:

channelID: Number - channel ID
enable: Boolean - true to enable, false to disable (both VoN and chat)

Returns: Nothing

Syntax 2

since arma3 1.60

channelID enableChannel [chat, VoN]

Parameters:

channelID: Number - channel ID
chat: Boolean - true to enable text chat
VoN: Boolean - true to enable voice chat
enableMapMarkers: Boolean - (Optional, default true) true to enable map marker placement (since arma3 2.22)
enableMapDrawing: Boolean - (Optional, default true) true to enable drawing on the map (since arma3 2.22)

Returns: Nothing

Examples

Example 1

0 enableChannel false; // disable user ability to send voice and text on global channel

Example 2

0 enableChannel [true, false]; // enable user ability to send text but disable voice on global channel