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Sort / Order Channels

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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  • Fo Hamblin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes Pleeease sort this out! seems such a simple thing and would really help usability!

  • Tom commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You cannot re-order as it is sorted by alphabetical order apart from General. What I have had to do is put A.Subject, B.Subject etc. to get the correct ordering.

  • Ron commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    OMG often i try to do something very simple with MS tools and then the functionality just doesn't exist.... sorting channels is one of those. How can that not be possible, come one!

  • Jon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    So needed for multiple project and phase management - why isn't this fixed yet?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It is ridiculous that such basic functionality wasn't the first thing designed-in. How can you organize the important channels from the less important ones that you still need to keep around for the occasional announcement that needs to be read right away? Our organization doesn't even use multiple Teams....Just Channels. I can't control how our organization sets this up for us, and now I am stuck having no way of organizing this mess of Channels. Before you say it, I already hide inactive channels that I have no responsibility to. But, I can't hide bulk announcement channels which go dormant for months at a time, but then blow-up with communication all at once and then I am expected to provide input in real-time. I would prefer to order my channels by importance/activity level, and hide the dead ones altogether. Instead, I have rarely active channels mixed with my everyday channels and it is killing my brain to have to sort through stuff with my eyes every time I am looking for a specific channel to find a discussion or a file. This is the exact opposite of 5S. Way to make the workplace more streamlined, Microsoft.

  • Jason Lee commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Adding an emoji to the start of the channel name sorts the channel at the top which is a easy workaround.. but that has caused some issues with @ mentioning the channel occasionally.

    Sort order in Team management would be nice

  • Jowen Mei commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    My workaround is that I'm using spaces to arrange the order!

    The name cannot start with a space, but I'm using it in combination with subgroups.

    For instance, I have:
    APP - General
    APP - Development

    The real name of the first channel is APP - [space]General.
    Teams seems to truncate them, so it still looks allright! :)

    You can add more spaces for more granular ordering.

  • Naeem Akhtar commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Very simple feature but will be real handy..... to be able to sort channels according to our priorities. Even archiving of channels should also be allow.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I hope we will get this soon, as it might sound small, but the effect can be big especially for us working in education with hundreds of courses as channels.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Even I have faced difficulty while naming the channels numerically 1,2,3... Once I reach 9, 10, the '10' goes back to '1'. Therefore I have gone about this by renaming my channels as a,b,c...
    Channel a - 1 - Channel Name
    Channel b - 2- Channel Name, and so on

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, we need a way to reorder channels within a Team. Currently the workaround we are doing is adding numbers but that does not work if some channels are private and not everyone can see all the channels.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes I agree it would be nice to have an easy way to select channels and teams as favorites like in Outlook.

  • 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.

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