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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This item remains on the backlog.
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Wim Vanoeveren
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any update on this ?
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Tim Gordon
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this.channel.archive();
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Michael Green
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We are rolling out teams and our R&D group really needs the ability to archive channels ASAP. Should be core to TEAMS functionality.
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Brandon Buompensiero
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It is pretty disappointing that this is still on the backlog. Does any company not have a use case for archiving channels? Please get this implemented Microsoft.
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Anonymous
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Unreal that this is not possible.
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R Carlson
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I was baffled to discover this was not a feature already. I get questions from my users daily about the ability to archive or export our data, specifically for channels that reach their end of life. It doesn't make sense to provision a whole team for some of these projects or conversations, but they need to be saved when they are concluded. This is a critically important feature for how my organization is now using Teams. Time to get this done Microsoft! Just look at the number of requests for this feature that have come in since COVID-19!
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Anonymous
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This is a a much needed feature. It would really to manage the team space much better
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Nicklas
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I must admit, I presumes the ability to archive channels was there, since we can already restore deleted teams. Now, needing it for the first time, I discover that it isn't.
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Anonymous
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We definitely need this feature as we are creating single channels for every opportunity, project, incident etc. Many thanks inadvance!
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David
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Add me to the list, I totally agree: archiving a channel should be a basic function!
Once we archive a channel, we need the conversation history to remain and not to count towards the channel limit within a Team.
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Elisa Hanley
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This is absolutely needed! I have people going into the wrong meetings because of Microsoft Bookings which gives a different link for every meeting. Even meetings that are named the same.
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FlO
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MS-Team: How are your plans reg. this feature request? We'd also really, really, really appreciate it! Thanks in advance for a status update (hoping for a "not on backlog anymore, we're working on it" ;-)
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Anonymous
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We would like to have the feature to archive the Teams Group channels. We have lot of channel unused one. We need to archive those unused channel
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Sarah
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Archiving a channel should be basic. Please implement this feature with priority
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Aswin Tanzil
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What is the timeline for this to be completed?
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Sontana Intraweat
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Once we archive a channel, we need the conversation history to remain and not to count towards the channel limit within a Team. Please and thank you!
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Beatrice
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Add me to the list, I totaly agree: archiving a channel should be a basic function. thanks!
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Nathan Bicknell
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I carry the same sentiment as many here, channel limits and views will become cluttered quickly without this.
I would almost say it should be a client wide toggle to hide or show things marked as archive. This could hide archived channels and chats from view and search results - the latter would surely increase efficiency and data center performance. -
Frankie Chu
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I am hoping that this feature arrives before our Teams setup collapses due to large number of channels.
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Berney
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Archiving a channel is a must, but it would be nice to have it coupled with exporting a channel conversation to a document, renaming a channel and the associated folder together, or moving a channel to a different team. I would really like all of these features, but would settle for much less. Just let me hide the channel for the team without making members do something. And give me the ability to make a channel read only.