Ability to archive channels
Would be nice if we had the ability to archive channels. For example: we created a channel for a specific project. Once the project is complete, we can archive that channel or at least move it out of the primary view. I could see the channel list getting large and clunky quickly with multiple projects many of which are complete.
Also, when a conversation in the channel is complete it should be archived or hidden.
Cory
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We are still considering this feature for future releases, and will continue to update the status when it changes.
~Alex
564 comments
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Paul Freeman
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The OP was from 2016 and this still hasn't been implemented? WTF Please tell me that there is a way to do this.
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Taggart Reed Befus
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Your product is garbage without this. We are switching to Teams from Slack and it makes me want to quit my job.
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Todd Sales
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Another example of some very good work / conceptual idea being very short-sighted. Between the 200 channel limit, inability to create & use sub-channels, and inability to archive channels, hard to see how this "solution" is viable/sustainable for any length of time..?..
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Rob Holloway
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Either add the ability to archive channels or figure out how to fix the hard limit of channels per team. I'm working on a way for an architecture board to collaborate and eventually approve all solutions in an enterprise and could see the 250 limit of channels being used up quickly. Creating a team for each solution or groups of solutions would break the Microsoft Flow triggers for approval. Rock, meet hard place.
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Andrew Cochran
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This shouldn't be "considered for future releases." It's a no-brainer feature that Teams should have had from the beginning. Please add it.
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Dimitris Vogias
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Really need this ability.
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Anonymous
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Need this feature. In Slack currently, we create channels for trade shows yearly. Then we archive that channel, and sometimes reference the archived channel for past photos/info. However, for the next year's show there is a new, fresh channel with new attendees. Was really surprised to see that the archive feature wasn't available on Teams.
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Anonymous
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Not only would I like to hide the channel in the drop down menu, but I also would like to archive the channels. Because, in our software engineering, we would like to store the conversations as the evidences. After all, only hiding in the drop down menu is annoying us when we are about to select more important and more active chats.
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Caitlin Canfield
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This is super important. For example, I work for a not for profit that operates on soft money. We use channels and teams to work on funding proposals. If a proposal is not funded, we want to be able to archive the work but do not want to lose any of the work-it may be used in the future, but is not relevant to any current work and this needs to be archived or it just becomes clutter. Thanks!
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Daniel Leuenberger
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Warum dauert dies denn so lange. Für eine Kommunikation auf Projektbasis ist dies zwingend notwendig. Ansonsten läuft nach wie vor alles per Mail.
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Scott
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+1 for the ability to archive a channel within a team. Serious oversight on Microsoft's part and creates management issues described by many, many other people on this thread. Please make this a priority.
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Brian
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This is a big let down that this is not a current feature. Why is it still on the backlog?
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Brandon B
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with a 250 channel limit, this is extremely necessary.
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Anonymous
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Please make this a priority. This is absolutely critical. A team is a set of individuals. The channel is the topic. It makes zero sense to not be able to archive a “topic” once it is complete. Such as a project or IT outage. It would make it so much easier to go back and look at those conversations when you needed to. But not be necessary to scroll through old stuff.
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Anonymous
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The lack of ability to manage channels separately from Teams creates significant Teams sprawl for us. Would really love to get the ability to not only archive channels, but also to make private channels. Eg. for a consolidated HR team where everyone needs access to some information, but only certain individuals need access to others. I know, different issue...
Please let us archive Teams channels.
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Craig Ferguson
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Wow no update for over a year?
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Christopher Prince
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This is something that would prevent us from using Teams, we currently have large numbers of active projects ( upto 150 ) and would need the ability to archive the project related data, for upto 7 years.
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NPAT
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Need to have the ability to archive and export to pdf (or other file type) as a way to store the conversation history. If say a specific conversation relates to a particular project, once completed, the conversation can be removed. The exported file of the conversation will then serve as a log of what transpired during the project which would be helpful in different situations - reviewing the project, determining how to handle similar issues in different projects, who did what, etc.
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Paul.
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Kind of surprised that this is not something that you can do out of the box. That and print or save a channel to provide to someone who is not part of the team.
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Roberto
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I work for a large company and this feature would be so nice to have. Would save so much time and nice to declutter