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.

352 comments
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Mandy Blizard commented
This would be soooo useful for us! Please consider it as a change - thank you
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Marcus Santiago commented
Can't wait for this to become a feature! #upvote
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Gopi commented
this is ultimately important feature if teams as product need to be agile and improved
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Anonymous commented
I was searching to see if this was available when I came across this suggestion. This would be a huge benefit for us. We currently utilize Teams Groups to represent our projects once approved. The integrity of the teams work (communication, collaboration and documentation) recorded within a group chat would be retained once "Convert to a Team (Project) channel" is selected. This availability will allow the team to collaborate in one platform throughout the entire project. We need this!
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Rose Bayani commented
I completely support this improvement!
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Michael Lopez commented
This would be a very useful and helpful addition to Teams.
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Anonymous commented
This would be huge for emergency operations, most emergencies start off as a meeting. There is a huge need to keep this information together.
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Anonymous commented
This is a no brainer! Fix please
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Anonymous commented
it would be a very useful feature
just what i need at the moment -
Simao Campos commented
May times activities are created from Outlook and loose the context of a specific Team work. It would be very useful to be able to associate a particular call / group chat to a Team / Channel.
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Will Holley commented
Please do this. This is how a lot of projects start you have discussions, share files back and forth, then it becomes a project. This would keep from having to manually migrate all of the beginning information to a new location on the same platform.
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Anonymous commented
Definitely want this. A lot of our chats really should be channels! At least have a function where you can add a chat to an existing channel
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Laurent commented
Some users already asked for such a feature, it would be very useful
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Anonymous commented
Great idea would deffinatly support
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Anonymous commented
Definitely want to support this! I am looking to create threaded conversations too in the group chat and it looks again like it too is a feature of Team Channel but not Group Chat??! Seems weird.
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Anonymous commented
such a pain when chat grows, docs are added and have to convert to channel by copying post by post and every and every document. please add this feature!
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Elena Fiumi commented
Yes, please I am really looking for this option!
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Anonymous commented
Yes please. But the Chat should be a threaded single post, and the user prompted to supply a clear subject title. All members of the chat would need to be notified and asked to 'Leave' the chat to prevent splitting the discussion!
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lisa rinehart commented
This would be Incredibly valuable, has there been any hints that MS is considering this?
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James Webster commented
This would be a very useful feature and a great addition to MS Teams....