Backup, export, printing, archive options
Can Teams chat and activities data be exported, printed, archived, and backed up/restored? Within Sharepoint or elsewhere? This could be necessary for a few reasons both during projects and for historical records.
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-Warren
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Anonymous
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I'd like to export the chat message to SQL Server database.
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Saida Davies
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There needs to be a function where multiple windows can be opened within Teams. It is currently very frustrating to be able to have only one addition window open if you are in a call and this limits sharing multiple documents. Again, this is a basic function such as opening multiple documents in WORD!!
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Saida Davies
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This function is not a big ask; it is essential. Like many apps there a user should be able to capture and export important chat for backup, archive or forward it for reference. There also needs to be a function to delete chats no longer needed and not held in Teams forever.
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Karen
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This is a basic function. This is a needed function for legal retention back up we have an employee we let go we need to be able to back all of this up. This should be a basic and easy function in teams.Print, export, archive...
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Anonymous
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This is an essential interoperability feature. It is not acceptable to have data held ******* in Teams.
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Christina Weidman
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Would REALLY love an update on this request - especially exporting and archiving/organizing posts!
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Bernd Schneider
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Nothing since Nov 2016. Very poor.
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Anonymous
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Hello, any updates on this? Would really appreciate this feature, especially in threads..
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Ben
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This isn't a feature yet?! Can you please reassign your entire Teams dev team to work on this until we have a solution? I can't imagine that there is a single feature or bug fix that is more important than this.
It is absolutely crazy that I'm forced to use things like Greenshot to document Teams conversations.
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Anonymous
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I represent one of the top 50 solar installers in the USA. I've already requested that we be able to move channels between teams but we also need the ability to download the Teams chat and if that's easier that could be a temporary solution to my channel problem.
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Jared
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Had and extended outage and Teams chat is my best time timeline but can't export the conversations. Very cumbersome to keep scrolling up and down to build timeline.
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Erica Toelle commented
Microsoft Teams needs backup/restore APIs similar to SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange. With these APIs, 3rd party tools could backup/restore the chats, conversations, Teams settings, tabs, etc. Or you could build your own tool if you don't want to buy a tool.
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shreesha
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how to export MS Chat conversation to word
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Nirav
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I like to archive/download Teams chat conversations just like Skype conversations through Conversation history in the past.
Some Teams chat history is required to store under compliance policies.
At the moment, Teams chat conversations can't be downloaded. Please enable this functionality. -
Joe Muscat
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Can you hurry up and get this sorted please? It's a very important feature.
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Sygmond
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For those who just want to save the conversations... a workaround is to open teams in chrome and go all the way up in the conversation you want to save. Run the chrome extension 'GoFullPage - Full Page Screen Capture'. This will scroll down automatically, it will wait to load, and it will automatically take screenshots. At the end you will have one screenshot with the whole conversation. Looks as good as the original. The downside is that you can't select the text because now it's an image. Hope that helps. It's better than opening to a new window the conversation in the Teams app and using CTRL+A.
Sorry for posting this in multiple threads. If these threads are merged together, admin can remove my duplicated posts. Thank you!
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Anonymous
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This functionality is key for such an application due to "documentation" reasons and to create backups. I don't understand how such an important function was not implemented from the start. I hope it will come soon. But as the subject is there since more than 4 years I'm afraid it will not. This is really frustrating and the value of Teams is decreased by this missing possibility.
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Erica
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it's really important for me to be able to download conversations so I can archive them since I can't archive an entire team or channel when a work effort completes.
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Valfran S. Almeida
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With COVID19 it is extremely important to export conversations to use in reports
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francois lejoyeux
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please add these feature