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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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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The ability to convert a Channel to a Team is a MUST! What a huge difference this would make! Thanks!

  • PM commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1 -- please allow conversion of group chats to channels

    How about getting a link to the group chat as well..?

  • Brian commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be great to be able to select a portion of a private chat to convert and share as a conversation also, really a sub-step to this and long way from preventing email as the primary form of communication. Sadly it is still easiest to send one on one emails then add people to the cc line to include them.

  • Jim commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We just found the need for this today. Would love to see it implemented!

  • Joakim Ögren commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Sometimes it starts as a chat... but will end up with lots of great value/history. Would be great to convert to a channel to preserve it for the future.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Will bring down the number of chats that have been created due to private channels not being available.

  • Mark Sim-Smith commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd love to be able to convert a chat into a channel on an existing Team. Often chats have a lifetime that's worth preserving, and it makes a chat discoverable. These can be managed as a channel, but not as a chat. An example is when we have an incident where the investigation starts its life as a chat between two people, then gradually snowballs to the point where we want it to be discoverable both immediately, and also to have it archived for future reference as required.

  • Naomi Cao commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1. This is a must-have feature and already available in Slack. Surprised that it's not the case in Teams.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1 - Looking as well if could already be done. Looks like an addition that people are looking for.

  • Chris Cook commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would definitely be a useful feature. Found this thread whilst trying to find out if it was possible to do.

  • Ilan Leshem commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1
    This is a no brainer! would be super useful and is greatly missed right now! Had expected this to be possible, as I googled how to do this, I came across this thread.

    Hopefully this gets picked up soon!

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