Move conversations to different channels
If a conversation is started in one channel but gains importance to the point where the conversation deserves its own channel. Or a conversation was started in the wrong channel and needs to be moved
Kevlangdo
shared this idea
if you have an existing post that you want to show in a different channel, you can edit the message and cross-post. This will add the top-level post to the different channel, but will not include the full set of replies. We will keep this request in mind as we evolve the cross-posting feature in the future and update if the status changes.
Details on cross posting can be found here: https://support.office.com/article/cross-post-a-channel-conversation-in-teams-9c1252a3-67ef-498e-a7c1-dd7147b3d295.
874 comments
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Jeff
commented
Even a few minutes of browsing the UserVoice forums makes it obvious that Microsoft's product priorities are bonkers. Someone in Teams product management is obsessed with not providing any basic content management functionality, even as a permissioned function for Team admins/owners. Crazy.
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Brad Bueche
commented
I agree this feature is needed. For years we have been dragging emails to folders and now we cant drag a post to a different channel? I think you are missing the built in habits/perspectives of your users here. We drag EVERTHING to folders. If it is a data object on my screen I should be able to drag it and categorize it via this simple the simple method of drag and drop. I would think even a brand new user would want to immediately try to do this. Ask the new user, "so lets say you made this post and then you decide its in the wrong channel and you would rather have it in this (point to a channel in the left pane) channel?" You see? You cant get around it! In UX, drag and drop is the shortest (most immediately intuitive) path to take. Always. (Yes, automation is great but that's a different user, problem being solved, viewpoint, context, etc.)
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Yuriy Samorodov
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I guess this method should work:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/channel-post-message?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http -
Michel Farhi-Chevillard
commented
Also consider moving the conversation to a different channel, which may be in a different Team altogether.
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Michel Farhi-Chevillard
commented
At the same time, can we please fix the copy/paste that only works on very small chats?
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Anonymous
commented
Agree can we add the feature to move a conversation. So much more helpful than copying/crossposting.
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Anonymous
commented
I would very much encourage adding a feature to move a conversation including all replies from one channel to another. The need for it happens all the time.
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Channa Bou
commented
I'd like to remove a channel, but keep the conversation and/or move it to another channel. I found I can consolidate two channel (topics), so merging them together will be very helpful.
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Anonymous
commented
Very much need this feature. It is available in Yammer, but not in MS Teams?
Clarification and content management for busy organizations is key to adoption for a coordinated team management replacement for e-mail.
MS: Please consider adding this feature.
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Nicole Nelson
commented
This would make all of our clients' lives easier!
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Jeff
commented
The last great advantage of email over messaging - the ability to manage content.
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Arin Komins
commented
Here is a basic problem -- you want to remove a channel, but preserve the conversation and/or move it to another channel. Right now, no way of doing this.
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Anonymous
commented
+1
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Anonymous
commented
I have needed this feature so many times now that not having it makes me *not* want to use Teams in favor of using just email chains/conversations which I can organize as appropriate. Is this what Microsoft intends for us to do? That's a shame!
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Anonymous
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Cross posting is not a solution.
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Lady Forester
commented
Adding to the din; this needs to be a feature. By the very nature of humans, conversations evolve over time and spin off, mutate and find new importance. The ability to edit channels, move conversations between them and maybe create subchannels seems like basic logic. As users have posted before me, this capability has been available in freeware forum software packages since forever ago. The Teams crew needs to implement this.
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Anonymous
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I would like this too. Feels like an basic and very important feature.
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pepper
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I want to move a post to the bottom so that all members can respond and not have to go look for it.
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Keith J.
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Have you tried this one?
https://agatsoftware.com/microsoft-teams-channel-management/
Also available in Microsoft Appsource -
Heikki
commented
This is really a must feature (moving conversations with comments). We have 70+ users in a single thread, and it's not an option to copy the main conv. to another channel without the previous chat.