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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Matthew McKee
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The lack of this feature is making us look at replacing Teams with Slack even at a extra cost to our existing Microsoft licensing. This is a feature that should have been tackled pre-launch; its so fundamental.
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Chad Kukahiko
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+1
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Anonymous
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This is a must for data management and archiving, when is this planned for?
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Anonymous
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It's hard to understand why this is not being prioritised. Robust data management is needed in every organization regardless of size. Without the ability to archive channels or export their conversations to PDF and store ourselves, things are going to unnecessarily messy and complex. Sure, I can hide but doesn't that just potentially leave a mess for someone else to clean up in the future?
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Anonymous
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+1. This is the most annoying piece in Teams. Please provide a solution to this
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Jennifer P.
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This is now possible through this 3rd party app
https://agatsoftware.com/microsoft-teams-channel-management/
Also available in the microsoft appsource -
Anonymous
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One more vote for the fire. Please Microsoft this is pretty important for keeping an organized Teams menu. There is a need to keep conversations related to a team project or topic that a single channel was created for.
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Helena
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The more I use Teams, the more cluttered it gets. There both posts, channels, and teams that are no longer relevant but that I cannot/don't want to delete. Yes, I can hide channels and teams, but at some point event the hidden items get too much. Being able to archive them would get another structuring layer.
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Paul Pennock
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This functionality will be celebrating it's 4th Birthday on the 3rd November 2020! Let's hope it doesn't get to number 5. :( Alternately maybe microsoft can send us a birthday card explaining why
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Sara Miller
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if this isn't a feature yet do you have any recommendations on how to manage channels with a lot of posts in it?
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Sara Miller
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Being able to hide/archive posts in a private channel would be a most logical feature set and much appreciated!
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Craig Fowler
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It's useful to use a channel for a focussed discussion on a specific topic by members of an existing team. It doesn't even have to be a whole project, perhaps a tricky aspect of a project. This way, related discussion is kept in one place, team members who are not interested/have nothing to contribute avoid seeing extra noise in the channels they usually use, but the discussion is transparent/visible to the whole team.
Once these discussions have come to their conclusion, it makes sense to archive the channels. Their contents would be preserved but their access permissions become read-only unless an administrator undoes the archival. Archived channels should be hidden from the channel listing (perhaps only reachable via a new "see archived channels" feature).
Currently the only option appears to be to delete the old channel, which would have the unwanted side-effect of deleting their contents. In our org (and I suspect many others) we cannot have that because the channel contents must be kept on-record for future reference.
An alternative which would suffice for us would be to be able to export a channel's contents (discussions etc) to an archival file format. PDF would be fine for us. This would enable us to keep a record of the contents in a read-only format, and then it would be reasonable for us to go ahead and delete the channel.
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Anonymous
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There are not many items on our Teams wishlist which are more important than this one.
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Wilko
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Please provide this option - it's been on the backlog for years!
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Anonymous
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Really need this functionality
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Anonymous
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Archiving channels would be a great feature. Is this something that is in the pipeline?
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AlexW
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Please, we plan with this events and every event is in a separate channel, so we need to archive the old ones to see the new ones
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Pistle Jumbo
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Archiving a team also archives private channels in the team and their associated site collections. However, you can still add or remove members and update roles and you can still view all the team activity in standard and private channels, files, and chats
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Amy Wang
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You could just hide it...
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Anonymous
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Please make channel archiving possible. Critical for our workflow.