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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+1 Totally agree with this feature request
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Mark Sim-Smith
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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.
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Anonymous
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Please implement
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Haber
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Agreed. Need this today.
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Naomi Cao
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+1. This is a must-have feature and already available in Slack. Surprised that it's not the case in Teams.
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Anonymous
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+1 - Looking as well if could already be done. Looks like an addition that people are looking for.
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Chris Cook
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This would definitely be a useful feature. Found this thread whilst trying to find out if it was possible to do.
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Ilan Leshem
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+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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Douglas M
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This seems like a natural thing to do. Often a chat becomes relevant to an entire team.
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Mark
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This would be great, it should be possible to 'promote' an ad-hoc team into a real Team
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John
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Actually want to be able to convert a channel to a team rather than a chat
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Anonymous
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We need this as well. Just training a department and was about to share that we would set up manager teams because we want them as private teams and not chats but someone already created chat groups. Ability to convert would save a lot of aggravation.
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David UoN
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To add that this also needs the option for converting a Chat directly into a Team of it's own, to allow the work to expand into a bigger 'space' with channels, tabs etc. Not simply merging a chat with an existing Team as a new channel. Once you have a Chat with a membership and a chat Name you have all the basic elements of a new Team.
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David UoN
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To add that this also needs the option for converting a Chat into a Team of it's own, to allow the work to expand into a bigger 'space' with channels, tabs etc. Not simply merging a chat with an existing Team as a new channel.
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Jason
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+1
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Raja
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+1 ..This is a needed feature..
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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.