Add person to private chat with chat history options not working consistently - working for some chats and not others
Add person to private chat with chat history options not working consistently - drop down menu working for some chats and not others.
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Scott V
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this is an inconvenient and completely arbitrary definition of privacy. if someone wants to declare a chat as private when they start it that might make some sense but the ability to add people to a chat should definitely not be based on some irrelevant rule about how many parties are part of the initial conversation.
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Anon
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Yes this "feature" is irritating - and why should a 3-person conversation potentially be any less private than a 2-person conversation? At a minimum the option to add a person to a 1-1 conversation with chat history could require the other party to accept, but seems unnecessary. I find Teams a good product otherwise - come on Microsoft, sort this one out!
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Anonymous
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I agree - this makes using teams for ad-hoc chats less useful than email as you can't bring someone else in to an-ongoing chat without having to almost start again. If you add someone else to a chat then why on earth would you not want to share the conversation. The same options as when you join someone to a meeting chat would be ideal and surely must be easy to implement. Thanks
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Anonymous
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１対１のプライベートチャットから第３者をユーザー追加したときにも、過去の履歴を表示するかどうかを選択できるようになると便利です。
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Andrew Ashurst
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Wow, that's annoying. What's the logic in being able to do this for chats involving more than 2 people only. Well, I think I can see one. You may over time have a long correspondence with one person and it wouldn't make sense to share the entirely of that with a third, fourth etc person. However, why not be able to create a new chat based on s starting and an end point (first and last post to be transferred to new chat) of an ongoing chat and share that with whoever you need to share it with. Just tried to see if that's already possible and it doesn't appear to be. Screenshot isn't much use either as you may need several screens worth.
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Tim Black
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This is preposterous, especially considering the Teams team seems to be releasing silly features like allowing you to set status from the mouse-over popup of the TEams entry in the Windows task bar. (I just noticed this UI was there today)
Another strike against my company choosing Teams for chat/wiki/data sharing.
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Fix it
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boooooooooooooooo microsoft, fix it!
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Pete
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Privacy-wise it would be no different to forwarding an email.
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Jackie Crosby
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If this a feature, then the documentation should state you can only share history in conversations with more than 2 people.
Please fix the bug or change the documentation.
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Kjartan Høie
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This bug makes chats a lot less useful. In real life, dialog very often starts between two people and then more people are included later.
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[Deleted User]
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Fully agree. Please find a solution to allow sharing history also when adding a participant to a 1-1 chat.
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Anonymous
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I understand the privacy issue between a one-to-one, but MS should put a feature in there between the 2 parties to consent to the addition of members and their ability to see history. BTW, I think their thinking is a bit flawed, because you can copy paste the one-to-one private chat history to the new chat after adding the third party.
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Biqram
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Wow hii
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Tuomas Pakkanen (Sulava Oy)
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Seems to work so that you are able to share the conversation history in group chats, but not when you are inviting the third person to a 1-1 chat conversation. This seems rather weird inconsistency to me. Maybe there's some difference in how Teams handles group chats vs 1-1 chats causing this behavior?
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Anonymous
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I see this as a security measure that should be chosen at the organization level. It appears you cannot add a 3rd person to a 1:1 conversation for (what I think are) insignificant reasons. Many users start a new conversation with one person and realize they need to add someone the next day but they have to start over in a new conversation.
This has been causing a lot of annoyed users. How could they know to add someone if that person wasn't know by the originating party until after the chat was started? This is a PROBLEM and needs to be opened by Microsoft per organization.
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Andrew Robinson
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I see this bug too. If I try to add someone to an existing chat i get not history options. If I search for them first then try to add more people then it works.
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Berney
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This seems more like a bug then a feature request. If you click on a person listed in your favorites or recent chats then click the add button, no history option. If you search for a person, then click on them to open that chat, then click the add person button you get the history option. Strange. Furthermore, if you have a group chat in your recent or favorite list on the left and click to add another, I am seeing the history option. Seems pretty hit or miss. Hard to explain this to users.
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Dave Upton
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Looks like it does work if you just search for a person and then click add vs using the people list on the left.
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John D. Shkolnik commented
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I believe that's because they enabled it only when adding someone to a chat already containing 3+ participants. It doesn't seem to work when adding a 3rd to a private 1:1 chat.