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
163 comments
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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!
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Lee Watson
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This is essential. Merge Teams, Merge Channels, Copy Planner Tasks and other apps when merging, etc.
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Anonymous
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Yes, we want this too! Specifically, we wanted to delete the "General" channel since we aren't using it. But then we realized one of our other channels really could be "General," so we wanted to move it over or merge. Since we can't we have more channels than we need.
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Aslam GC
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Any update on this? Even if you can't merge the teams, what we need is to be able to move the channels and especially the MS Planner boards from one team to another. That would at least allow us to move the useful content to the merged team and then simply delete the redundant one.
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Anonymous
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A separate post i requesting the same https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/19836328-merge-teams-to-prevent-multiple-teams-with-the-sam
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Floydy
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Pretty much everything here that they said was "under review" in 2017/18 has been left to rot. Same for Teams Notifications. I feel like they set up this forum and then decided they didn't really want to hear what people thought after all ...
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Anonymous
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Is there an update?
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Ivan Corberó
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We are in the adopting phase and this need raised today. I agree, an OOTB option to merge channels would be super-helpful.
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Steffen
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As any project evolves, you need to be able to rethink how it's structured. We should be able to merge channels without losing conversations and files in the process. Would be a great help!
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My name here
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How can this take so long? Need to merge two channels into a third channel.. what's the latest with this thread with regards to development - seems to be taking super long to merge what should be a simple DRAG and DROP fix? Just add a pop-up "Merge channels" / "Save Merged Channels" and prompt for a new channel name..
Pleeeeeeeease?
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Kate Novitsky
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Would love an update on this. Wasting a lot of time manually moving channel content over.
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Sonya
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If we still can't merge channels, is there a way to extract all of the information from a channel?
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Katrina Petersen
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@Warren, for the love of all that is holy, the last update is creeping up on 2 years old. This seems like a very basic idea that should already be in place. We do not want to waste FTE manually moving files, encountering the human error of possibly missing things, and create a mini-project. Is there any update on when this might be implemented?
Even a very basic "it's coming in 3/6/12 months" or "We don't care and it's not on our radar" response would be helpful to allow planning.
Thank you.