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.
835 comments
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Darren Alman
commented
This is critical to me, as my users frequently post things in the wrong place.
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Sutter Schumacher
commented
+1 more for the October 15, 2020 comment:
"The user experience I would appreciate is to have an option from the ellipsis menu on a post - Move to other channel - and all relevant replies and files get copied to the new channel, and the post is deleted from the original channel."
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Anonymous
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"The user experience I would appreciate is to have an option from the ellipsis menu on a post - Move to other channel - and all relevant replies and files get copied to the new channel, and the post is deleted from the original channel."
Totally agree with Anonynous (October 14, 2020)!
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Anonymous
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The user experience I would appreciate is to have an option from the ellipsis menu on a post - Move to other channel - and all relevant replies and files get copied to the new channel, and the post is deleted from the original channel.
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Amy Waldfogle
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The whole point of creating channels is so that a full record of conversation is in one place, easily visible to all team members, including those who joined the team after work began. Right now, meeting chat transcripts only appear in the feed for those invited to a meeting and do not have any association to a channel. There's no way to move private chats into a more public forum without inviting every individual and even then, no way to leave the documentation of the discussion for future team members.
Perhaps a way to "share" a conversation with a channel?
Maybe a way to invite the channel as a whole as a participant?
Tags?There's got to be a solution.
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Anonymous
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Cross posting will not work, when are they going to address this?
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Anonymous
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come on, we have mulitple versions of this request going around. this would make 30k votes i have seen so far. how many more do you need? i thought user voice was a place microsoft was supposed to listen to the users?! ARE YOU LISTENING MS?
edit: i just counted. this plus the other thread ive seen culminate to 35,679 votes SO FAR ACCROSS only 2 THREADS. i bet theres more out there.
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Jessica Singelais
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Agreed with the other comments - the workaround does not meet the needs of what we are trying to accomplish.
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Helena
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The suggested workaround is pretty much useless: my problem is not that conversations are not in the right channel - I can repost them, no big deal. The problem is they are in the WRONG channel! I cannot delete them (unless they are mine) and I cannot move them. This is a much needed feature - apparently since 2017!
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Lisa Hughes
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It would be a massive help for all the reasons already raised.
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Anonymous
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This is urgently needed for us to manage our organisation's communications effectively whilst working remotely due to coronavirus restrictions
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Dominic Frigon
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I just ended on this discussion looking for how to do the move a discussion to another channel. The recent posts present all the issues and justifications. I join my voice to these recent requests.
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Tim Howard
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You have a Team with multiple Channels, someone starts a new Conversation in the wrong Channel, as an Owner of the Team I should be able to move the Conversation to another Channel. That's just a common Admin (moderator) function. Soon this "idea" to move Conversations will be 4 years old ...
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Anonymous
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Another upvote - this is proving vital as we organise our Team. The General Channel is a mess and needs reordering. We didn't really know what themes we would have until discussion developed and now we know where we want to put stuff we can't move it!
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Anonymous
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How do we change this from "try this instead" to "we are looking into it" ?
Not being able to move the full set of replies means that searching for information if you only have access to one of the channels is only giving you a small part of the picture. Please fix this.
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A C
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2020, still not possible ? It's very annoying
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Maritza
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We are joining two project teams into one and there is no way to move channels from the existing MS Teams to the new MS Team, and there is no way to Archive Teams or channels either. We really need this asap.
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Micha Cassola
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The need is abvious: You start a Conversation in a Channel and later want to move it to another one because another team or other people might take over and need the info or because it makes more sense to have it in a more appropriate channel...
I am sure there are more ways this would be beneficial.
This idea is not far off and a lot of people need/want it, so please implement it and do not push another feature that has nothing to do with this on us. -
Anonymous
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Some similar software called Twist has this feature, why doesn't Teams??? When I googled to find out how to do it in Teams, I thought this link was giving directions for Microsoft Teams, but turns out to be something else I wish my organization was using instead.
https://get.twist.help/hc/en-us/articles/115003623485-Move-a-thread-between-channels -
Anonymous
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I agree that this would be very useful.