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Support hashtags in channels and DMs

Allow clickable links on #hashtagged items ... in a channel or group, perform a search within that group.

For DMs and conversations, search all of your conversations

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Teams is putting in all this work to make Teams for Home users, Teams for Schools, Teams for Frontline works. It'd be nice if they'd work on Teams for Teams users and stop spreading so thin.

  • Daniel Weir commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Boy does this need to be added immediately. Teams was a great solution for small things before COVID, but now all my colleagues are climbing on my back about Teams feature lack relative to things like Zoom or, in this case, Slack.

  • Joseph Harrison commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I honestly can't believe that Teams didn't have such a feature designed in from the start. It seems so fundamental to navigating the unstructured information that evolves in a Teams setting. The sheer volume of information that is generated rapidly becomes overwhelming, and there is no curating that will fix that. Hashtags brings order and makes the information useful to the rest of the team.

  • Scott Rowat commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The ability to categorize a Post (most significantly the initial Post in a conversation) is huge and would open so many more options as to how Teams could be used and to be able to use it efficiently. The categorization could be implemented using tags or hashtags or labels similar to Planner. The ability to filter and/or search by tags would be necessary as well.

    We have a Support team in Teams and a Help Me channel that allows agents to ask for help from the entire company. It works great but the without any form of categorization we are unable to mark a Post as "Solved" or something similar so we never know if it still needs attention unless we read the Post itself to determine its status.

    For me, this is more about categorizing the Posts with a tag or label and not necessarily having hashtags within the conversation itself, so the idea might be a bit different (and maybe should be moved to a new topic).

    I have so many uses in Teams where categorization would make a huge difference. I would like to see this reviewed and move from "on the backlog" to "in progress" :) Thanks for your consideration.

  • Sriharsha Allenki commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be a very useful feature for topic based search. This would help us with organizing the information and also tag the conversations/emails with appropriate topic tags

  • Uven commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Very useful functionality to be able to tag documents with metadata to enable search.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Is there any update on the #hashtag topic thus far? It is important to have information structured at these trying times.The function could significantly improve the data navigation experience. Otherwise we just get lost in a silo.

  • BWGunner commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Just piling on that our organization too would really like to use linked hashtags to organize chat and DM content. Would be very helpful and is somewhat of a social expectation.

    You folks are rockin' it and coming to everyone's rescue. Keep up the great work.
    #TEAMSkudos #THANKyouTEAMS #rockonwithyourbadselves

    ;-) See what I mean?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I second everything Mitt had to say.
    Especially this:
    "Tagging is a basic requirement for team chat to work."

    And this

    "It's been 2 years. Two years! Not having it is ridiculous"

  • Jamie MacLennan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This came up again in my org. A great implementation would be some flexible ways "subscribe" to hashtags. E.g. I could get notified of any use of #hashtag on any team I belong to, in a specific team, or only in a specific channel.

    This would be an awesome feature!

  • Trace Symonds commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We've introduced Teams across our org. This is my 2nd implementation and in both companies, users wished they could tag a message, post, etc., and then be able to search the team by the hashtag. I could see this as a benefit to tenant admins too!

  • VibhorTyagi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Another great idea. Would benefit in sorting and managing components efficiently.
    ~Engineer.AI

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