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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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  • Yoann commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I also need that to avoid losing all past messages when our team is growing. Thank you.

  • Indy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Considering how work starts with a small team for a short burst then grows, it is then that convert to Teams channel is needed, so this is a very big requirement, please help make it real.

  • Bryce commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree, extensive conversations can be documented and integrated into a Billable Project, as opposed to sitting in a random chat area with no way to tie a new project to the original content that triggered the project.

  • Milena Yankova commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    absolute must! very often a discussion starts with a innocent question in a group chat, but it raises into an important theme to be followed up on. Group chats are difficult to brows and refer to after a couple of months. I want to be able to move those important discussions into a channel to improve their visibility and discoverability of the decisions and concerns expressed.

  • Mattew commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, please! Especially when we start sending documents and saved items, it's hard to move people over into a channel when so much momentum is already established.

  • Jose commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would this feedback ever get attention from MS? I need this feature and I see that people have been asking for this for last 3 years.

  • Jorge Lourenco commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    My team needs this! I have Chats that need to be moved into a team as a channel. Sometimes we have a Teams meeting to discuss an idea, that chat becomes the starting point and we decide to create a team afterwards once the project becomes a reality—but our original thoughts are all stuck in the chat and its confusing for some people.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Thank you! I opened a support ticket asking about this functionality and was told it was not a feature as of yet.

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