Add generic @ mentions in each channel
Add generic @ mentions in each channel such as @here, @channel/@room to make it easy to notify all present members of a channel or all members of a given channel with one simple @-mention
Jordan
shared this idea
Thanks for the continued activity on this ticket and showing me this new idea. Can someone please create a new UV idea and rally the troops to vote for it? I love the idea of @here — a good idea for the Presence team.
Note: You CAN @ tag a channel to get the channel’s attention and make it bold so people will look at the channel.
Thank you everyone and have a great Wednesday!
Sincerely,
Suphatra
15 comments
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Q Continuum
commented
Yes. Please refer to (copy) Slack’s implementation of mentions. 😉
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Lance Titchkosky
commented
Please bring @here to Teams! I realize that tags have just been launched to @ specific groups but @here is so important! I don't want to wake up someone that is away in a channel, I want to only @ people that are present and available to chat.
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Kim Schiøtt Christensen
commented
I here you, Tracy Alers and David Leslie!!!
This is not covered by private channels. -
James
commented
Since we are currently using member action restrictive "Broadcast" Teams having users be able to @mention all owners (@owners) of the Team would help them draw attention to a thread that requires moderation/changes would be a very helpful addition!
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Tracy Alers
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The fact that @channel and @team are the same group of people is the root of the problem. Channels should be subsets of teams, and not aliases. Whether the channel is opt-in or opt-out should be a switch that is flipped at creation time, but the goal is to be able to scope your pings to only people who care to receive them.
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David Leslie
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I've seen a few of these requesting the same thing and it's either been ignored or misunderstood.
We are aware we can @mention the team or individuals to notify them. We want to be able to @ChannelName so that only those following that channel are notified. Currently @channelname will notify the entire team. This would be exactly the same as @TeamName so what is the point? -
Damian Stalls
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I need this too. Currently we have a Team with channels dedicated to customers. We also have a Team with channels dedicated to our service offerings. I would like to be able to @mention across teams which I think this generic @mention would resolve?
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Fabio Barreiro commented
also nice to be able to mention someone in a 1-to-1 chat...Teams would open a group chat
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Amit
commented
Would be nice to be able to do @mentions within individual Teams messaging.
Sending John smith a direct message that includes an @channel-name mention. As a way to copy a team/channel on that particular message. -
Andreas
commented
New idea posted here as suggested: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18698530-more-mention-possebilities
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Kip Kniskern
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I'm voting for @here, too (as well as a better system for seeing who is actually "here")!
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Anonymous
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I'd really, really like it if @here can be added to mention the current channel without having to type the channel name.
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Andreas
commented
@Suphatra is there also an option as suggested by Jordan to only give notifications to people that are not away (@here)?
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Edward Tew
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I would like to be able to @mention different channel names as well.
The use case is that I would like to create dynamic channels from our CI build process and @mention the developers that contributed to it and @mention the new channel in an announcements channel. -
Chris Moen
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Yea, having to do @team, then wait for the group to pop up, seems a bit silly. Ryver allows for @team (everyone that is a member of the channel) and @here (which is everyone that is currently active in the channel). I like that a lot.