Question
People commonly ask on the Zoom Developer Forum:
Can a Meeting SDK bot automatically join a specific breakout room by its ID (e.g., using the Linux SDK’s JoinBO method) without any host approval or user action?
Answer
The meeting SDK allows a bot to join a breakout room directly if it has the correct role. That said, most bots will join meetings with the attendee role, meaning they can't join a specific breakout room directly.
Meeting SDK bots with the attendee role are limited to the same permissions and flows as other participants, and Zoom does not support bypassing the usual breakout room assignment/approval steps as:
- You cannot auto-join a breakout room solely by passing a BO room ID as a participant; the bot must follow the same participant rules as humans.
- There is no SDK-supported way to bypass host actions or participant prompts for breakout room entry.
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