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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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  • Jen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, please create a feature that will let you convert a channel to a team

  • Zong commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, need to do this since we started to upload files to the chat. When can we have this? :)

  • Alan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1, to create a new team and (as an option) to create a new channel in an existing team (adding chat members along the way).

  • Cara commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Echoing the sentiments expressed previously. We had a project gain momentum very quickly in the past week and now need some of the features available in a channel but don't have a way to convert without losing our current conversations as well as the pain of communicating the new location/links to documents, etc.

  • RC commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Did a search to figure out how to do this and ended up here.

  • Mike commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1 (and more!)
    I was actually surprised we can't do this already.

  • Lee commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1 as I just had a long conversation where questions were answered, a conversation that really should have been in a channel. Too late, I could not move the conversation. So yes, it would be a great feature.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1 as a channel involvement grows it needs to have the capability to branch out as its own team.

  • Ramsey W Brown commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes especially since you do not provide planner or some other options to chat groups. So if we cannot convert to a team channel at least give us the same options as if it was. cause sometimes i need to have a group act like a channel for a short period of time but not necessarily need it an official channel.

  • Mari Selvam commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    That would be great feature, if they provide us.

    It will very helpful.

    MS TEAM - Please try yo make it possible.

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