Importing from Slack, Hipchat, Flowdock, Basecamp, etc.

Hi,
We are using Slack for a long time and now we are thinking to transition to MS Teams. In Slack it is possible to export all channel content's in JSON with links to files uploaded to slack.
It could be very useful to have the ability to import the slack history into MS teams.

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David GROSPELIER shared this idea · November 03, 2016 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

on the backlog ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · July 28, 2020

We have added this feature to our backlog. Please keep sending your comments and votes, and we’ll update you here with our progress.

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Warren responded · August 06, 2018

The feature team is still considering this item. No confirmation yet.
-Warren

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Warren responded · March 07, 2018

Still under review, no new details to share.

-Warren

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Warren responded · January 23, 2018

This currently under review, though I don’t have any additional details to share at this time.

This request makes a lot of sense and as I hear more I will be sure to update this request.

-Warren

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Suphatra responded · May 26, 2017

Hi everyone,

I know this feature will make migrating to Teams much easier for so many of you - and that’s why its an important feature. We’re having trouble implementing it because it requires access to information and functionality not yet exposed (create teams, channels, write messages, “imitating” real users, etc.). So, we first are working to make this functionality available-namely, providing a “Create Teams” API, which is difficult and complicated, and thus going to take much longer than we anticipated.

Thus, I am interested in crowdsourcing your creative brains for alternative solutions that could work temporarily while we work on this feature. If you have any ideas or hacks you’ve done to import data from another productivity tool, please share!

Thanks so much, especially for your support of Teams.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

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Suphatra responded · March 08, 2017

I know this is a common request. Please keep voting this up if this is a major pain point for you. We have it in planning but your votes will help accelerate when work starts. Every vote counts!

Thanks,
Suphatra
Microsoft Teams

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Matthew DeRolf commented · January 31, 2017 10:31 · Flag as inappropriate

GREAT IDEA

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Anonymous commented · January 24, 2017 07:22 · Flag as inappropriate

Definitely interested in this.

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Nikita commented · December 05, 2016 10:39 · Flag as inappropriate

We are considering switching to Office 365 from our current email provider. If this import feature is implemented, we would have another reason to do so - we could also leave slack.

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Fokko commented · December 02, 2016 03:38 · Flag as inappropriate

This is a duplicate for https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public-preview/suggestions/16933120-importing-from-slack

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Fokko commented · December 02, 2016 03:37 · Flag as inappropriate

This is a duplicate for https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public-preview/suggestions/16933120-importing-from-slack

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Anonymous commented · November 23, 2016 22:54 · Flag as inappropriate

This is a dealbreaker for many. If Microsoft can fix this then there no hurdle to switch

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Craig Whelan commented · November 21, 2016 02:25 · Flag as inappropriate

Entirely agree with you David

Slack history retention is definitely high on the agenda here when evaluating Teams; not to mention third party application integration (salesforce.com, Twitter and GitHub to name just three...all exist but in very limited form currently it would appear)

Thanks for flagging for the Microsoft team to consider

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Ji Li commented · November 17, 2016 11:19 · Flag as inappropriate

Provide a way to import Slack/Hipchat history into Teams. Slack provides a way to export the history: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-your-team-s-Slack-history It would make the migration from Slack to Teams much smoother if we can import the history file into Teams

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Anonymous commented · November 17, 2016 02:54 · Flag as inappropriate

HI,
same for us - besides Slack we do also use Hipchat and all of them would like to migrate over to teams.
Only the lack of importing old data into teams is a showstopper for our switch over to Teams :-(

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Anonymous commented · November 17, 2016 02:53 · Flag as inappropriate

We do also think about a switch over to Teams - but most of our internal communication is already on Slack!!
MS - please provide a way to import JSON into Teams

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Michael Bannasch commented · November 15, 2016 13:47 · Flag as inappropriate

We have a long history of BaseCamp projects. If possible we would really like to maintain that history. Other services like teamwork have the ability to import from BaseCamp so it seems possible.

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Robert Downey commented · November 11, 2016 10:09 · Flag as inappropriate

Get this done, and our entire organization will switch.

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Anonymous commented · November 10, 2016 14:11 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi,
We were previously using HipChat, but are now moving our teams over to Microsoft Teams.

We'd like to be able to take a HipChat export of rooms (aka channels) and import them into Teams for archive viewing. The data is available in JSON format.

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Brent Berg commented · November 09, 2016 05:57 · Flag as inappropriate

This would be useful for our organization as well.

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MJ commented · November 04, 2016 02:22 · Flag as inappropriate

Being able to import Slack db data, like channels, history which is exportable already

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Anonymous commented · November 03, 2016 15:48 · Flag as inappropriate

The ability to import existing channels from Flowdock into Teams so that we can keep history.

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