Read Only channel
Would like to create a Public/announcements Read Only channel so that only specified members can post. This allows for authorized personnel to make company announcements, but not everyone can post.
(The request for a Public Announcement channel is complete, since the General channel can be controlled by admins and set to read only)
Anonymous
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Due to a priority shift this request has slipped to the backlog. I hate to bring bad news. I will continue to provide the feature team your feedback and votes.
Hopefully this will move back up in the queue soon.
-Warren
107 comments
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Anonymous
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I really dont understand why Microsoft removed the read only memberships ...
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James Read
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This would be a great feature
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Ryan
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Moderated Channels don't provide Read Only access to FILES.... So this feature is still needed! Granular permissions in general at the TEAM level would be great. I think I'll look for that feature request now... :-)
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Star
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It'd also be nice if Users couldn't set up a meeting for such a channel, because the meeting shows up in the posts, thus bypassing the channel moderation.
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Nash Pherson
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This feature shipped a while back: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/manage-channel-moderation-in-teams
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Nash Pherson
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This feature was release awhile back: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/manage-channel-moderation-in-teams
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Ed
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I like this idea, but maybe, but maybe a slight modification, allow moderator to post new conversations, but only all replies to each conversation to the team
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Anonymous
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Would be great for teaching too. Would permit differentiating announcement by teacher post from student question post. I would welcome ideas for how to do this in the present system. I want students to see eachother's posts, but not be overwhelmed by volume and be able to ignore some chit chat without ignoring what I am sending them as the teacher... Is it possible to set up an informal chat INSIDE the team? I know I can do it apart, but I would like to keep all conversation inside the team.
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Anonymous
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I don't think this really fits the "Team" idea. Company announcements tend to fit better on Sharepoint or Yammer.
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Jörg
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Hi,
I found it 😊, there is a function for a channel that you can set it up the channel as a moderator channel. That means that you can use it a news channel. Only the moderator can push messages in the channel and every else can read it. The nice thing is that you even can set up guest accounts as moderator
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Jörg
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Yes is there an update we need this
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Nishant
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Is there an update on when this can be made available?
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RV
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Please add this functionality. As you can see admins are doing workarounds, editing permissions in SharePoint directly which you advise against for Teams libraries. As the latest response from Warren was over a year ago, can this be revisited?
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Anonymous
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I ended up creating a team with a channel where only owners can post and then I use Flow (Power Automate) to repost that message to another team where people can chime in with their discussion.
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Hamish McBrearty
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I'm currently using Webhooks to post the results of scheduled tasks into a dedicated channel. I'd love the ability to make this channel read-only to all users but the webhooks to ensure it only contains the notifications, rather than the "asking everyone to play nicely" approach.
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Kensley
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What is the latest news on this proposal from the Microsoft Team?
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Erik Pauwels
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Mainly for Files. It was strange to discover that Guest was not the read only member group in Teams. It usually is. Now we are forced to make permission changes in SharePoint.
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Jake Gordon
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Please introduce the ability for a user to set a channel to read only for just them. This would make it more difficult to enter chat into a channel or chat that was not intended for that chat/channel.
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Russell
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Moderation makes some things read only, but not everything in the channel. For example the channel's files tab, what (if anything) does moderation do about them? And other apps/tabs that are added don't allow for moderation. If we could remove or restrict the Files tab, then we could have a public announcement channel...
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Tim Banting
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Would people think this is more, well, Yammer-like? I would like to see Teams and Yammer merge for all collaboration down the line. Is there really a use-case for keeping them separate?
Plus Wiki tab? How very 1990s! - I would like to see this as an alternative to Yammer discovery feed so that a summary of a busy channel can be seen. (Supporting # tags? Word clouds? Sentiment analysis?)