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allow the users

a) to set a own nickname, which could be displayed when people hover over my icon

OR

b) allow me to set individual nicknames (=additional data, remarks) for a contact and show that when I hover of them

OR

c) both (a+b)

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  • Mangesh Wagle commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    c. however in meetings, I think the original name with (person assigned self nickname a. ) should be present, and b. should be abstracted from others.

  • David Ledgerwood commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Think this would be useful especially for those users who maybe don't like their names and would prefer to be known as something else.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    allow the users

    a) to set a own nickname, which could be displayed when people hover over my icon

    OR

    b) allow me to set individual nicknames (=additional data, remarks) for a contact and show that when I hover of them

    OR

    c) both (a+b)

  • poramboku commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a very basic feature. to allow users to rename their personal contacts in Teams contacts or in skype. - these will be only visible to account holder - not others

    personal buddy list/personal contact list.

  • Eggbert commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Many social communication tools already have this functionality.
    Discord for example allows you to set a default nickname and also allows you to create a custom nickname for each channel you join.
    Skype has always had this ability.

    Not sure how this was overlooked in Teams. If I were joining a channel about programming I might want to use "Bob C#" to indicate that I preferred to be called Bob instead of Robert and that I specifically code in C#.

  • Adam commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please also let us search by nickname to find people quickly. When you work with people all over the world, some places have very long names and everyone goes by a nickname, it would be great if people could set global nickname too.

  • Daniel Carroll commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I work with hundreds of people who have very specific jobs, and need to be able to nickname what they do.

    i.e. Amit Gourav works a very specific task, and I have hundreds of people like Amit all doing something different - I'd like to be able to change the name displayed to "Amit G - FRO IS - Mumbai". When Amit sends me a message in Teams, I can know what he does/understand the context of his commentary.

  • AAli commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    C please. I have a lot of coworkers who have nicknames but aren't displayed in Teams like they are in alias in Outlook.

  • akoch commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    oh yes, Nicknames would be realy helpfull to make it more easy especially with very long Usernames
    Option c) please

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