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I would like to be able to order or arrange the channels as they are listed under my team. We can order tabs within a channel, but not channels under a team.

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  • Hasan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The workarounds by adding / changing the numbers in front of a Channel name as priorities shift is a nightmare as it doesn't change the SharePoint names / folders and anything else that's in the background of it.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Need same thing! I don't know how that channel got there...Was I on the previous one, can’t figure it out.

  • Tamara Frey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Making an order of channels per User possible would be great, but allowing the team owner to do some new ordering would be sufficient.

    Reason for team owners needing this functionality: As renaming the channel still leads to confusion concerning the name of the SharePoint document folder, just renaming a now more important channel so it moves to the top is a bad idea.

    Reason for users to be able to sort for themselves: in a larger team with lots of channels, some channels might be more important to some users than other or have other priorities - simply hiding or unhiding is not always the solution - sometimes I want to see 5 channels, but in a different order than alphabetically sorted :-(

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree! I work with academics using Teams for learning and teaching - it would be great for them to be able to shift channels to the top of the list as they become important - eg an 'exam revision' channel at the end of semester.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be really useful - sticking a number in front of a title to get it to the top seems pretty amateur

  • L White commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would this option apply to everyone's view of a Team - or could it be user-based? In other words, if I were able to reorder the Channels, would all other users see my new order?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Good idea.
    Now as there is also the same need for tabs within a channel (even more important to me) and that the contribution says you can already do so, I'm wondering how this can be done.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would like to be able to order or arrange the channels as I see fit,.. please??!!

  • Leesa Foerster commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would like to be able to order or arrange the channels as they are listed under my team. We can order tabs within a channel, but not channels under a team.

  • Jim Lewis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Especially when a Team site can have up to 200 channels, it's crazy not to have a way of sorting them, ordering them, grouping them.

  • Luke Harries commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Our team has quite a few channels, but some are much more important than others (eg channels with the sole purpose of being a place for external notifications/webhooks to be logged), and we would like to be able to sort those channels to the bottom of the list, keeping the most important conversations organised at the top

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Wonder if Microsoft is working on this? It is a problem....hope it will be fixed soon :-)

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