Collapse/expand conversations (hide/show replies)

Users are asking for a few different things:

Collapse/expend all button -- single click to collapse or expand all threads

Admin setting for collapse/expand

Button to re-collapse a thread once its been expanded (right now you have to navigate to another channel in order for the thread to re-collapse)

Please add more granular requests in the thread below.

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Carlos Carvallo shared this idea · November 02, 2016 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

partially done ·

Warren responded · September 09, 2018

Item 1 and 2 are Under Review.

Item 3 has been Completed.

I’ll keep you posted as I hear more on this request.

-Warren

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working on it ·

Warren responded · August 06, 2018

This item is still in the works. The work is still carrying on.

Individual status are:
1) Is in the works
2) Is still under review
3) Completed

-Warren

working on it ·

Warren responded · June 01, 2018

This item is still in the works. No ETA is available at this time.

Individual status are:
1) Is in the works
2) Is still under review
3) Completed

-Warren

working on it ·

Warren responded · April 24, 2018

This item is still being actively worked upon.

Unfortunately I don’t have any new information to share at the moment. But I will keep digging.

AS for each item the status are:
1) Is in the works
2) Is still under review
3) Completed

-Warren

working on it ·

Warren responded · March 05, 2018

This item is still being actively worked upon. No new details to share at this time, but I will keep you posted as I hear more.

1) Is in the works
2) Is still under review
3) Completed

-Warren

working on it ·

Warren responded · February 13, 2018

now exists and you can re-collapse threads after you have expanded it.

is still in the works. I don’t have a solid timeline but good progress is being made.

is under review.

Stay tuned for more information it becomes available.

-Warren

working on it ·

Warren responded · January 04, 2018

No big updates. #3 is still being worked upon. (Also some density improvements are being worked upon as well.)

working on it ·

Suphatra responded · September 29, 2017

Hi everyone,

I noticed a lot of confusion in this thread about exactly how our expand/collapse works. Here’s a quick explanation:

By default, messages are collapsed. When you click into a conversation, it expands. To get it to recollapse, you need to navigate to a different channel and then come back. When you come back, you’ll see the thread has been re-collapsed. Currently there are no Admin settings related to expand/collapse.

We saw your requests for more granular expand/collapse functions (see numbered bullet in the request above) and we’re working on #3 — giving you a button to re-collapse a thread once its been expanded.

I’ll let you know once its shipped. Until then, have a nice weekend. :-)

Cheers,
Suphatra

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Suphatra responded · May 25, 2017

This is in progress, folks!

Suphatra

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v-brorob responded · March 13, 2017

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Ben Matheson commented · March 27, 2020 07:48 · Flag as inappropriate

Let the user turn off auto collapse please. People are missing important info!!

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Keith commented · March 26, 2020 12:03 · Flag as inappropriate

+1

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Quan commented · March 25, 2020 18:47 · Flag as inappropriate

Hard to imagine a product designer makes the msg auto collapsed by default, our team members missed a lot of important msg because of that. it is very inconvenient. whoever can think normally won't design a product like this! sorry for my words, just feel it is really annoying

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Loran Hauserman commented · March 23, 2020 09:08 · Flag as inappropriate

+1

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Seb commented · March 21, 2020 00:35 · Flag as inappropriate

+1

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Matt commented · March 13, 2020 07:13 · Flag as inappropriate

Everyone in my facility on teams has complained to me about this...

Maybe just a channel setting at the user level that keeps every conversation in that channel expanded...

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Adrian commented · March 10, 2020 20:38 · Flag as inappropriate

Coming from Slack in to Teams, the thing that is frustrating me the most is the Teams app's preference to collapse everything.

Using the app becomes super painful quickly with too much high dexterity clicking needed to expand all the things. Please just keep it all open and fix the UI to be more condensed.

Also related to https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17408641-compact-mode

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Daniel commented · March 03, 2020 23:26 · Flag as inappropriate

Are there any updates on this? Having to expand all messages separately is super annoying.

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Rango Yuan commented · February 11, 2020 18:35 · Flag as inappropriate

I missed some important msgs. Conversations should be expanded by default.

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Anonymous commented · January 30, 2020 12:05 · Flag as inappropriate

Conversations should be fully expanded by default. This is how it is in Slack, and it is much easier. I want to be able to read what people are saying - not just the first and last lines. Please fix this asap

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- Al commented · January 10, 2020 08:46 · Flag as inappropriate

Conversations should be able to be expanded by default. This is how it is in slack, and it is much easier. I want to be able to read what people are saying - not just the first line or two.

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thobie commented · January 08, 2020 02:17 · Flag as inappropriate

Long review process? How to expand all posts/conversations visible automatically?

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Anonymous commented · January 06, 2020 08:23 · Flag as inappropriate

Please add the ability to clear the last Chat in the background. I do not want an old and potentially sensitive/confidential chat just sitting in the background just because it was the last chat I had.

Allow chats to be closed / cleared from the screen when you are done!

Add a toggle command to Reopen the previous chat - or even the whole continuous Chat thread since the beginning of time, fine... BUT PLEASE allow the Chat contents to be toggled off the screen and persisted as OFF until I get a new Chat or I choose to display it, again!

Pin the Contacts list open like Skype as a quick reference to the status of your favorites and group members. This is the landing page I want always open... and with NO stale Chat thread in the background.

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RajQSL commented · December 12, 2019 17:05 · Flag as inappropriate

It seems that last update from the team is on September 09, 2018? Is it possible that Dev team is not looking at this post?

Would really appreciate "expand all" button? I have Slack and Rocket Chat for long time and never felt the need for collapse all. Maybe it is feature for few people, but "expand all" seems more useful.

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Anonymous commented · December 10, 2019 17:12 · Flag as inappropriate

+1

Took me a long time

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Jonathan commented · November 19, 2019 00:57 · Flag as inappropriate

Agreed - why collapse automatically? i want to read the whole thread!! Help me save the world (in my mind... but thanks anyway)

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Marc commented · November 06, 2019 09:16 · Flag as inappropriate

+1, it's really annoying having to expand more than every 2nd message I get.

@Warren: How's review status?

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Anonymous commented · October 30, 2019 07:25 · Flag as inappropriate

Please stop collapsing entries in the conversation. Please implement 1 and 2 as soon as possible!

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Jonn commented · October 30, 2019 02:37 · Flag as inappropriate

I second that:
Can't work with Teams until this is implemented... I click "See More" "See More" "See More" "See More" all day long, it drives me nuts.

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Anonymous commented · October 25, 2019 11:53 · Flag as inappropriate

Can't work with Teams until this is implemented... I click "See More" "See More" "See More" "See More" all day long, it drives me nuts.

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