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Editable Teams and Channels header

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I have experience of using MatterMost (an on-premises Slack clone) and one of the features I really like is that each channel has an editable header. That header can contain markdown.

My team is a dev team and we use the channel header to display badges for our Continuous Integration (CI) builds. I'd really like to be able to do the same in Teams.

Problem right now, as described by one user:

I need the team description more easily visible. Right now I have to click on Edit to be able to see the description of the Team. It would be great to have it written at the top so that it’s evident to all. Another way to see the team name is to “View Team”. However, if the description is beyond the character count, you can’t read the full team description.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    YES!!! Why can't we leave an editable header on the channel. I know we can place an announcement, but this scrolls away as people post new stuff. I need to be able to tell people stuff when they land on the channel. For example: working hours 9-6 EST.
    Thanks!!!

  • Jeroen Vink commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I need this too, as well as the opportunity to hide the default headers in channels. I see this as one feature, customizable team/channel headers.

    "welcome to the team" and "Let's start a conversation" <- translated from dutch so might be slightly off.

  • Wazzy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Sept 2020 and still no update? I just wrote a description but nothing to show for.. Get r DONNNEEE

  • Nathan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    "Right now I have to click on Edit to be able to see the description of the Team" <--- This! I'm designing Teams and channels for clients, and their users are certainly not going to click "Edit Channel" to see the full description! Just getting them to click the (i) info icon to see the description at all will be challenging enough. Why truncate the description at all? -- or if truncate it, why not make an easy and obvious way to click to see the full description?

  • Johny Be Good commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Definitely never seen an application that is this poorly created - every single request even the most basic things such as changing the picture of a chat consistent of several members is marked as a request and usually takes 3 years + to not do anything -_-

    The day Microsoft develops something that doesn't suck... is gonna be the day you guys make a vacuum cleaner -_-

  • Zoltán Lehóczky commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is kind of done, no? Now there is an info button in the upper-right corner, under which you can also finally see the channel's description (or the team's if it's the General channel).

  • Emerson Skufca commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a very very basic-seeming need...for user-friendliness and collaboration.
    Slack excels at this concept, having both Topics and Descriptions for each channel. V helpful...borderline essential...

  • Thomas Schützle commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would consider it extremly helpful if it would be possible to display the channel description somewhere where it actually can be seen by the users, otherwise you can remove it completely. First time I created a channel I took the time to write something that really helps to understand what the channel is about, but found that I seem to have done that for nothing!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please make this happen guys. If you want to replace Slack this is one of the missing things!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please allow the channel description to be seen when clicking on the channel. Thank you!

  • TK commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    one more thing, it is not very friendly as I try to copy a list of email from excel into add members, these are people who are within the organisation and TEAM cannot auto pick up. I have to add one name at a time which is annoying as the list is super long. please fix it..

  • TK commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    OMG.. I need to remove it urgently... MS Team pls fix it asap.. I have remove the description in the ttle but it still show
    ....

  • Marius Pretorius commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I use the /GOTO command in the Teams command line (at the top) a lot.
    Additionally, if there would be tags that can be included in the description and one could use those in searching for the channel it would be fantastic. The description field has this help text: Provide a description to help others find the correct channel. I tried it out, typing: /GOTO and a word from the description. It did not appear in the list. This is how I would have imagined it would help someone find the correct channel.

  • George Daniels commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You need to edit or manage a channel before you can find out what the stated purpose or description of the channel is...!? Seriously? WTF?

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