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Change which Tab is default landing page for a Team and/or Channel

Right now the conversation tab is the default landing page for a Team and/or Channel.
I want to be able to have a SharePoint site landing page in a tab and that tab be the default tab open when you navigate to a team or channel.

Think of it like a landing page for that team. You may not want it to drop right into Conversations. If you can have a SharePoint page with a Microsoft Teams conversations web part, you get the best of both worlds.
I can see a lot of scenarios where you'd want the chat window open and another tab at the same time. Rather than having to context switch. Imagine the SharePoint page tab being the way to do that by using Web Parts on a dashboard. A web part for the Microsoft Team and another web part for whatever was in another tab.

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  • Brian commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Could we get an update from Microsoft on this? I haven't read through all of the comments below, but see "on the backlog" pinned from August of 2018 at the top.
    I too want several channels to default to "Files" rather than "Posts".

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Come on developers! Users have been asking to change the default tab for over THREE YEARS! You have thousands of requests! This should be a pretty simple thing to change. I wish my school distrit went with Google Classroom. Teams is not as user friendly and there aren't as many resources.

  • Pierre commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why this is even an issue is unbelievable to me. The hard-coding of arbitrary tabs,when the ability to add tabs is there, is nonsensical. This is the kind of beta-level platforms MSFT puts out with clearly cursory UX testing, absolutely no UI testing, and QA testing by MSFT engineers FOR MSFT engineers. Really poor product development all around. Teams - such a good idea, but so poorly rolled out.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Adding one more vote. Every minor inconvenience contributes to resistance of adaption - as it stands, showing the posts by default has a lot of draw backs for us.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I find the landing page being automatically 'Posts' is very counter intuitive for learners - especially as there is one for EVERY channel! I would like to be able to delete the 'posts' tab from every channel except the one I set up called 'Chat Room'.

    Such an easy fix for MS - why has this not been done?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is something I come across *every single time* I go to Teams. It is unreal to me why it is not already taken care of by Teams. It is a daily annoyance and one that drives me crazy.. :(

    I see that it has been MORE THAN 3 years since it was proposed. This is insane!!

    PLEASE IMPLEMENT THIS ASAP!

  • James commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature should be baked into the user experience. Unreal that it is not.

  • Tom commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes would also like files to be the default tab when I open a channel. Badly needed and very cumbersome compared to the standard folder structure

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I totally agree, what a poor user experience. Everytime I navigate to a Teams site I want to go directly to the Files, not the Posts. Most of my teams never use posts and it is a waste of space. This leads to an extra click, and poor experience as I am navigating around. Does Microsoft do any type of user studies before making products???

  • James commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please can we have an update on this feature which has been on the backlog now for two years? It still sits in the top dozen highest voted requests for Teams. This significantly impacts the user experience of Teams!
    Agree with previous comments, this must be a simple change to make.

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