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.
Samuel Sze
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Anonymous
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This feature should be mandatory. It would be extremely useful and something I would use on a consistent basis.
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Catherine Ferschl
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New to Teams, this is already the second time I could have used this feature!
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Anonymous
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+1 ..This is a must feature...
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Hans Erik Jensen
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The comment from Daniel made on July 25, 2019 09:02 is particularly well expressed regarding the scenario, and this feature ask.
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Hans Erik Jensen
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This would be a really nice feature to see included in Teams. It would've made our migration over to Teams (from Slack) a lot easier. Often, we would start out in a Chat that grew in terms of both audience and long-term strategic need, and at a certain point converting the dialogue to a Channel made more sense over persisting it in a Group Chat.
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Amy Shumate
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Need this today!
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Michael Leib
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Our customers would like us to design a chat-bot to do this. I'm looking for a way via the graph api right now.
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Carl P
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Agreed. Need this today.
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Julien LECADOU
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We need the same feature here
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Daniel
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This is especially helpful for growing organizations and departments where people start working on a project that gets bigger and bigger until you need a PM, title changes, new team, etc. You could just create a new channel or team when that momentum hits a tipping point, but now you've lost all previous content that may need to be referenced by a PM, department heads, new team members after expansion, etc. Seems silly to have to remember to add each new team member of a project to an old group chat that nobody is supposed to use (confusing, at least) until the old info is no longer relevant or necessary to keep (but when does that happen?). This would be a huge step in managing the extra complexity of having teams with channels instead of just channels like Slack or Hangouts.
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James O
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Just ran into the need for this today. I was really hoping it was supported already.
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David Lee
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This would be a very useful feature. Voted.
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GD Kasander
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High priority. Need this to support corporate reorganizations
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Ryan Thomas commented
I've wanted to do this on many occasions. +1 on this request.
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Cliff Mason
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Discussion evolve and supporting this would be a huge improvement, as we as stuck in the current channel.
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John Bevis
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In our law firm, we have had to set up many Client "Teams" because we don't have access control at the "Channel" level. I understand this capability is coming later this year (2019) and we are anxiously awaiting this enhancement. Until then, we have a mix of Teams with common member composition with many client "Channels" and we have many individual "Teams" centered around one client because of unique member access requirements. If, and when, the whole Teams App Access Control is extended to Channels we will need to convert individual Teams into Channels to achieve a homogeneous environment... The ability to convert Teams to Channels should be worked in parallel with Channel Access Control. Soon please.
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André
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Traduction : Autoriser la conversion de discussions de groupe en un canal d'équipe
Il arrive parfois que des personnes entament une conversation sous forme de discussion avec quelques personnes, et la discussion prend de l'ampleur et finit par devenir une salle de discussion normale. Ce serait formidable de pouvoir convertir une discussion privée en canal Team. La façon dont cela pourrait fonctionner est que, si les membres du chat font tous partie de la même équipe, vous disposez d'une fonction vous permettant de sélectionner cette équipe dans une liste déroulante et de "Convertir en canal d'équipe". La discussion privée deviendrait une équipe permanente et tout l'historique des discussions précédentes serait conservé dans l'équipe nouvellement créée.
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Anonymous
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The same needs to apply to threads within a channel as well that we want to break out into its own channel within a Team or out to another Team.
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Ian Cadwallader
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+1. Is it ready eyt!?
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Geordie Guy
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I landed here looking to see if this was possible. We have so many problems around adoption that take the form of;
1) Chat gains momentum and becomes a real thing, so we create a channel... but the chat just stays the chat
2) We pre-emptively start a channel to facilitate something, can't get the word out about it, competing chat reigns