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Allow Group Chats to be Converted into a Team Channel

There are times when people start a conversation as a chat with a few people, and the chat gathers momentum and eventually becomes a regular chat room. It would be great to be able to convert a private chat into a Team Channel. The way it could work is, if the members of the chat are all part of the same team, you have a function where you can select that team from a dropdown list, and "Convert to Team Channel". The private chat would become a permanent team, and all previous chat history would be retained in the newly created team.

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  • henry broadbent commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    the only way I can highlight the chat at the moment is to pin it to the fixed chat header. I will keep it there until the facility to convert to 'Teams' is made available. Please let me know when the developers have added this function.

  • Kyle Merrill commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree. The ability to convert a chat to a team while preserving it's associated content (messages, files, etc.) would be very helpful.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would also like to see the ability to convert a channel to a team and a team to a channel!

  • aperez commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    this makes so much sense to have, trying to do this now... LOL and just thought I would look for any info on how to do it. surprised to see that this is an outstanding request for over 3 years WOW! Is it on the roadmap at least? How many votes does it need to have to be considered and developed?

  • Steve commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any updates...? This happens all the time and is a natural progression for any sustained group chat.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Same with Meetings - changing a meeting into a team retaining all the meeting notes would be ideal (especially recurring meetings)

  • Steve Davis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Is this functionality still unavailable? I see nobodies asked about it for a couple of years...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree but I would also like to have the capacity to migrate or link an existing conversation chat to an existing Teams group. I find people often take conversations out of the group and start a new chat that doesn't link to the group so we lose that great feature of Teams of keeping it all together.

  • Tony Wilson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This scenario happens all the time at work -' Convert to Team Channel' would be very useful feature

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