Merge/consolidate channels
We changed the mind about the way we used some channels. We decided that some of the channels need to be merged. It would be nice to be able to do this without using history. We want history to be merged.
Max
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This request is now being reviewed by the feature team! I’ll keep you posted as to the future decision.
-Warren
174 comments
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Kodama
commented
Hi, Please update the status. No update over 9 month.
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Anonymous
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PLEASE introduce the feature of merging and consolidating channels.
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Anonymous
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I'd love to even consolidate all file folders from all the channels into one "Attachments" folder on Sharepoint. Is that possible? Make the channel folders live one subfolder from the main documents page?
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Brian
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Or an option to choose a single, shared file directory for all channels maybe.... having unique Files within each Teams channel has been a nightmare.
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Anonymous
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Like so many before me, I'd love to see the option to move a Team into another Team. In our case, we set up a Team with a group of our wider staff group, then decided we wanted a bigger Team with all our staff, and now can't move the original (sub) Team.
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Anonymous
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PLEASE introduce the feature of merging channels. Will make life so much easier
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Joseph Cilia
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This also needs to be extended to consolidate Teams, move an existing Team to a Private channel under another existing Team. This is required since before the private channel was available if a team with a subset of users was required, the only option was to create a separate team.
Since private channel is almost a full team, with team site etc, should not be too difficult to implement this, as mainly its just organizing the Teams.
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Anonymous
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This topic was posted at the forum below in 2018. It's time to speed up the execution and get this complete.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/move-channels-between-teams/m-p/291034/page/2
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Siddeequah
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Hi, again echoing what everyone else said, I really need to merge two channels in a Team. It was great to see this feature was being reviewed (in 2018), but it's been two years now!
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Anonymous
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Is it possible to merge 2 channels together without losing the threaded data of the other?
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Noel Fairclough
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........and then?
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Amy Bampfield
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I think Warren no longer has a job
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Heather Barron
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How is this not built in functionality? Imagine a filesystem in which you could not move folders or an org chart that didn't allow you to reassign people!
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Lydia
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This is a much-needed functionality! Businesses are flexible - projects and teams merge or separate, so Teams should have the same capabilities
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Charles
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Why is this still not possible? Seems like a pretty trivial feature to implement (just merge the two histories and move all the files).
Definitely need to be able to merge channels, move channels from one Team to another, merge Teams, etc. Basic functionality.
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Jason Smith
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I see this go back to 2018. We started using Teams as a company about a year ago. A few of us have ran with this....and realized that several people have created a bunch of Teams when they should have been channels under a Team. i'm trying to take on the consolidation on all of this and am now learning that we can't easily move files across. This is really a big need for us right now.
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Jay
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Should these ideas be merged and votes consolidated?
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/34204708-merging-teams -
Jay
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This should include overall merging of a team, not just a channel. Moving Members, existing channels, files, etc from one team into another team.
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Lars Buhl Schamaitat
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Yes, please. This would be so great.
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Anonymous
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this would be very useful!