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Mention one @Team2 from inside another Team1

I found a similar idea already posted but not as simply put.

I want to mention a team from within a different team.

Real world scenario: we have a team for gym members, and we're setting up another team which is likely to attract people from the same interest group as the gym. We want to @mention this new team inside the gym team, allowing people to click the mention and go to the team and join.

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  • Kol Tregaskes commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a must-have. I'd like to @mention any team and channel from any other team, channel, chat or the like. I'm surprised this isn't a feature already?

  • Greg commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Crazy that this is not already in there. It exists for all other planner apps but not MS's app?!

  • Norman Garrett commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Much needed, especially in Prod Support. If I have a chat or Channel going about an issue in the main product Support team and it is discovered that Feature Team A implemented something related to this. I can do a @feature Team A and they get a notification or something that they need to look at the channel or chat.

  • Scott Davies commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Seems simple as the current situation of @channel / @team are the same thing?! Only the people from within that team are going to see it.

    Slack has an overall team groups set up where you can configure teams yourself in the admin portal for @mentions. Everyone in that team is then notified, would be awesome if we could do that as well.

  • Geraint Williams commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Being able to tag people within your organisation to a task that is being worked where they are not currently assigned would be a great feature that Trello already has.

  • Jason Dean commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We have a similar need. We have a group called for example Devops, that group is split into multiple teams, for example Infrastructure,Operations and Development. We have one team "Team" that represents the group and all the sub teams are members of that group. We would like to, for example, be able to say @Operations to draw attention to an problem they need to look at or the same for any other sub team.

  • Chris Webb commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Guys, Shared channels basically have same functionality and they are comming. You @mention a shared channel which is cross team, this will basically do the same, and this is actively being worked on.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would be great for many of our Care Services customers. Imagine a scenario where at one location there are 10 teams of care providers which each take care of 10 groups of elderly people. Most of the dialog will be within a team, but often there are messages that concern other teams as well. A question, a note, an event. In these cases you would want to be able to mention another team from your own Channel.

    If Team A mentions Team B, that note should pop up in the General Channel of Team B. Expectation is that this works in a Public Team scenario but that you cannot @Mention Private Teams (they must have been made private for a reason)

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would be great for many of our Care Services customers. Imagine a scenario where at one location there are 10 teams of care providers which each take care of 10 groups of elderly people. Most of the dialog will be within a team, but often there are messages that concern other teams as well. A question, a note, an event. In these cases you would want to be able to mention another team from your own Channel.

    If Team A mentions Team B, that note should pop up in the General Channel of Team B. Expectation is that this works in a Public Team scenario but that you cannot @Mention Private Teams (they must have been made private for a reason)

  • Matej Kastner commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Incredibly important when your company grows. You need to mention small team within public channel.

    Scenario: Company team, Support channel - you want to mention whole support team (f.e. 6 people) to focus on some problem and allow other people to read and contribute.

    Possible workarounds:
    - Write them to separate team (but then other people do not know)
    - mention one person of support team in channel (but in case he is busy/out of office, then it does not work)
    - mention whole team / channel - notifies whole company (not good)

    Please provide this possiblity

  • Mitchell commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Another use case: Team 1 needs to update both team 1 and 2 at the same time. Would be helpful to also specify team 2 channel.

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