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Would like the ability to create a reminder or task from a message
In Slack there is an ability to click message options and set a reminder to take action on that message at some later date, e.g., remind me about this tomorrow or in 1 hour, etc. I think they use their "slackbot /" commands to create this reminder. In Teams, it would be nice to have this ability or to create a task to take action on a message at some later time. Thanks!
762 votesI really like the suggestion of creating an alarm on a message, so you come back to it. I’ve passed this on to our engineering team.
Meanwhile, here’s another feature you can utilize for the same purpose — use our “bookmark” button, which is in the upper right corner of every message. This will save that message or thread directly to your profile. To access your saved messages, just click your face in the upper left corner of the product. You’ll see a tab in the left rail that says “Saved.” This is like a list of little reminders.
Hope that helps! :-)
Suphatra
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Wiki - better text editor
wiki extension should be have more effective editor tools, as text alignment, table, ecc.... Just now is very poor editor
316 votesWiki now supports text markdown and styling from the toolbar! We are continually improving our compose experience in Wiki, look out for new improvements coming soon!
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Re-using the same Channel Name
After you create a channel, then choose to delete the channel, you can no longer create a NEW channel with the same name. It seems like you have to delete the team and start over.
299 votesUpdating the status to “Try this instead” and have added the clarification that after 30 days the name is once again available.
The reason for this decision was that Channels can be restored 30 days after being deleted. During this time, we intentionally don’t support creating a channel with the same name. After the 30 days, the name is available.
You can workaround this by restoring a deleted channel, renaming it, and then deleting the channel again. The previous name is then available for use.
This workaround has already been mentioned in the comments and if an immediate reuse of a Channel Name is required, this is the recommended solution.
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Have a hierarchical Wiki with child wiki pages in channel wiki tab
Can you add a child wiki page in a tab so you can create a hierarchy of wiki pages so it is easily navigated and organised. i.e. more like a navigable website. At the moment you can only add a flat list of wiki pages in a channel Wiki tab. See Confluence by atlassian.
192 votesHey everyone,
Thank you for your feedback! We support adding multiple pages to a single Wiki tab by choosing the “Create a new page” button on the bottom of the Table of Contents pane. This pane can be opened by tapping the menu button on the top-left of the Wiki.
We’re working to make the Table of Contents easily accessible on larger displays so that this option will be just a single tap away!
Thanks,
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Include call history in chat
Am I the only one finding it painfull that the chat history DOES NOT include call logs?
I want to be able to reconstruct to whom I talked how long. As a workaround I started to use Skype again or quit the Teams calls and call back the people by phone.
In Skype this feature helped me a lot when I tried to reconstruct to whom i spoke on days where things became crowded.
Please implement that feature asap!
190 votesCalls from chat are logged under call history in the Calls app, including the time of call and duration. Please try this and let us know your feedback.
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Channels visibility
See all channels inside a teams in the left panel under the Team's Name
157 votesCurrently we have Teams defaulted to show you the first (up to five) channels ever created. If you want to add more channels to your left rail view, just click the ellipses next to the channel name and select “Favorite”. When you favorite the channel, it will then be “pinned” to your left rail under that team name.
Try that and let me know if that meets your needs!
Suphatra
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Take screenshot on desktop app
One should be able to take screenshot and share in conversation thread without leaving Microsoft Teams app.
151 votesWhether you are using PC or MAC you can already take a screen shot.
With PC the shortcut for a selected capture area is: SHIFT+WINDOWS_Key+S
(this will allow you to select an area and capture it as an image to the clipboard.)
With PC the shortcut for a entire desktop screen capture is the PRINT SCREEN button on your keyboard.With MAC the shortcut for a selected capture area is: COMMAND+SHIFT+4
(this will allow you to select an area and capture it as an image to the clipboard.)
With MAC the shortcut for an entire desktop screen capture is: COMMAND+CTRL+SHIFT+3This should meet your needs. If you feel it does not, please provide a summary in the comments as to your use case and why the OS capture tools are insufficient for your needs.
Thank you!
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SharePoint Wiki Link
We have a Wiki in SharePoint. We don't need a separate wiki in Teams, just let us display our existing wiki pages, which have corresponding teams channels, in the channels themselves.
101 votesIt is recommended that you try adding the other SP pages as tabs within Teams.
If you feel this doesn’t meet your needs, please leave comments summarizing your usage scenario and why it doesn’t work.
Up-votes and all feedback is shared with the feature team on an ongoing basis.
Thank you!
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Personal workspace along with Teams
I think it would be great to have a personal workspace that lives along side your Teams. This would give you a similar toolkit as a Team with the conversation element pulled out. You would have quick access to your files (OD4B), OneNote, important stuff, etc. via tabs and then could use
I suppose this would just be the merging of the chat and files tab into a space that would also give you the ability to use tabs and connectors.
Might need some workshopping, but I think this could be a powerful way to get people spending a lot…
89 votesPlanner is being worked upon, the topic is found at:
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16926463-need-full-capabilities-of-planner-in-teamsOneNote has been added and can be found in the store link within Teams.
Other items are still being added and third party bots and apps are being created as well.
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Unable to start meeting as organizer. Stuck in virtual lobby.
Unable to start meeting as organizer. Scheduled Teams meeting via Outlook as the organizer. Went to join meeting as the organizer, signed into the desktop/app version of Teams, and was held in the lobby - waiting for someone to start the session/let me in. Unfortunately, given I was the creator/organizer, no one could get in - as I was stuck in the same lobby.
Any ideas on what may be going on?
59 votesThis issue is in our backlog, but we wanted to share a workaround that may help in the meantime. You may run into this issue if your Outlook client is logged into a different account than your Teams client.
As a workaround, when you join the meeting, make sure your Outlook client and Teams client are logged into the same account that the meeting was scheduled from.
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disable team creation
From a safeguarding and child protection point of view, in a school environment, it is not appropriate to allow students or staff to create new teams. Can the ability to disable team creation please be added?
Unfortunately the powershell options to disable teams/O365 groups requires you to have Azure AD Premium, which many peopl including ourselves do not have. The UI option in Azure AD to stop users creating security/O365 groups, even when set to No, does not work.
Students are still able to create Teams, and the fear is that this could be used for bullying purposes. Our senior…
58 votesPlease check out this support article – hopefully it gives you the informatio you need. Thanks!
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Files shared in "chat" should work like Files shared in "Teams"
- Files shared in individual chats should appear under the files tab, both within the conversation and in the blue tab on the side bar.
- Files shared in individual chats should appear when searched for in the search bar.
Neither of these things happen. It's inconsistent, counterintuitive, and obnoxious. Please implement.
54 votesI have had this problem too, and trust me I find it not intuitive either.
I’ve sent this to the Files team and I’m going to find out where this is on the backlog so I can report back to you guys.
Meanwhile, the workaround is that you have to delete the chat message of which you sent the message.
Thanks and tweet me @skprufo if you have any questions!
Suphatra
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Live editing of tabbed documents
This would apply to all things. I find it cumbersome that I need to open a new tab to edit the document that is right in front of me. Would love to be able to edit right there in that tab and see others doing the same. Collaboration levels would increase.
32 votesWhen you select a document in Teams it opens the embedded web version of the Office application which enables you to edit “inline” as you’ve described without having to open another tab. Hopefully, you’ve seen this and tried it out. Thank you!
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Ctrl+Enter for line break, like in Slack and Skype
Use cntrl+enter for a new line (break) within the application (like Slack allows)
Since if you press cntrl+enter it responds by sending the message since there is an enter in the keystroke27 votesIn Teams, the shortcut is Shift+Enter. Try that — it should create a linebreak for you.
Also, you can always just click the little “A” in the compose box (on the lower left side of the compose box) to expand the compose box, and this turns the “Enter” key into a line break.
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Use Teams to replace Cisco Tele-Presence
We would like to use Teams and decommission our Cisco video conference room equipment. We need to lock video from site A to display to site B and in turn have site B lock on site A.
Today the current video options allow multiple screens at one time and the conference room get reduced to either 50% or 25% depending on the number of participants that join from home or phone. We have two large offices in the US and this request is mainly for our executive team, key influencers and budget approvers.
24 votesThis is available to customers of our Room Systems in Teams meetings today – see the blog here. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Microsoft-Teams-Rooms-update-4-0-76-0-going-live-today/ba-p/360146
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After update on MAC - notifications are missed
There have been many times where teams has updated while it’s been minimized on my machine, causing me to not see any new messages until the next time I’ve manually re-opened and logged in again.
19 votesThe feedback I have received is that this issue is directly related to modern authentication.
If your company is not using modern auth’ the Teams app will force you to relog after updates, which causes you to miss notifications.
Instructions on how to setup modern authentication can be found at – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/msi-deployment
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Describe most common use cases, and best practices
I see that some people are already deep into MS Teams. However before we jump into MS Teams, we want to see some use cases and how to use Sharepoint, MS Office user groups, Skype for Business, and MS Teams in those use cases.
For instance a use case could be as follows:
The food processing plant wants to add 3 mixers. The plant manager needs to talk first with the CFO about its cost break even analysis and ROI, with purchasing about possible vendors and mixer costs, with plant people about installation, training and usage, and with the warehouse…13 votesThis is GREAT feedback. Thank you! We’re working on a blog series and we’ll be sure to include use cases, thanks to your feedback.
Meanwhile, please see this website for adoption and best practices for Teams: www.successwithteams.com
Let me know if you need anything else!
Sincerely,
Suphatra
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Ability to Change Team Type
When I set up a team, because it's a work team I selected Staff. That gave me the staff notebook and all associated weirdness.
I want to just have my old normal notebook back, but every time I delete all the sections (Collaboration, Content Library, section group for every team member) they respawn.
Now I know this, I'm going to have to nuke the current team, and recreate it with the settings for "anyone" rather than "staff" and copy all my stuff across.
Just being able to change the team type would fix all of this.
7 votesHello,
I’m Glad you are using Teams for Edu. You can raise a feature request at https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public which is a community for people to share ideas.Stay tuned the Best is yet to come!
Thanks,
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Less like Chat, more like Threads
People don't really use the reply in Chat very much. So when everyone is creating a new conversation there are a ton of UI elements all over the place making the whole window very cluttered.
I'd suggest adding a Subject Line to the conversation so that there is a quick summary though for the thread.
Then it would be nice to be able to click into that thread so you don't see all of the other chats.
7 votesWe actually do have a subject line.
If you click the little pencil in your text field, the text field will expand and you can write a title for your message.
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Windows Insider-like Teams bug reporting
We're having a number of issues with Teams (Connectors apparently not connecting, slow notifications in general, etc etc) which do not seem to fit into this UserVoice forum for future suggestions. I'm hesitant to use the help forum, as Suphatra has noted that it's not actively monitored by the Teams team (!), but I also don't want to actively fill this forum with bug reports.
Is there a best practices for filling out bug reports? The Windows Insider team is doing a good job with this, might there be something similar in here?
For the record, I don't seem to…
4 votesHey Kip, it’s Suphatra.
So, right now I’m not outfitted to triage bugs from the general public. Then I’d never see my family, and I’m pretty sure they aren’t down with that. Right now we’re validating and bug triaging only from beta customers and internally, but that will change over time as the product matures.
I have added a category in UserVoice called “Bugs” (I just added it today!). So that people can view and vote on bugs that have happened to them. I’d like to see if we find patterns of bugs.
For now, I hope that helps. You can always email me or ping me on Twitter at @skprufo if a bug has really ruined your day.
Cheers,
Suphatra
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