Schedule message to send at a later time
Often some member of our team finds themselves with a good idea or an interesting article that they want to post on MS Teams while it is fresh in their mind... at 6:00AM on a Saturday. This tends to wake people up if they keep Teams on their phone and don't have it on silent. It would be very nice to have the option to be considerate to those still in slumber and schedule a Teams message to go out at a later time. Many SMS messaging apps have this feature these days.
Jon Geller
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Anonymous
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This would be great feature to make people more productive while keeping up wiht digital wellbeing.
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GT
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This is a great idea, especially the ability to delay/send messages based on the recipient's availability/status.
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JM
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I want to send a message now but not have it delivered until the recipient's status is 'available'
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Anderson da Silva
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Work around with this tutorial
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Jin
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This is duplicate. Vote here https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/33967900-schedule-message-to-send-at-a-later-time
Already a couple thousand votes
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Jin
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Urgent
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George Dedes
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Would appreciate this. Would also appreciate holding the send of a msg to deliver it as soon as recipient is off of "Do Not Disturb" status.
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calumhm
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Very good - likewise being able to delay a message until a person has (for example) stopped 'Presenting', or is no longer 'On a Call' is a great suggestion
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calumhm
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@Dennis T that idea has 28 votes and is far newer - Either one would justify it NOT being a duplicate.
Nonetheless, its a great suggestion and it could potentially be merged with this one.
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Anonymous
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This is a MUCH needed feature. I agree with an earlier person that stated that we have to go back to Outlook when we want to delay a message to send and it does interfere with the adoption of Teams within the Organization each time we push back into Outlook like that.
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AryB
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Would love to have this added to the chat area not just relying on the Outlook delayed Outbox feature to work for channels' direct emails. Restricts if I want to send a message to specific persons that aren't necessarily in a Team specifically.
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Dennis T
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Slack has this feature now with Workflow Builder. It’s bit clunky, so I think Teams has a great opportunity to do better.
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Brian
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This would be huge for communication across time zones, especially US to EU.
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Hermes Ivan
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This would be great. If I'm working late and I have to send a message to my team, I don't want to disturb their resting time and receive a message at the moment, but I may want they have that information as soon as they are re-connected in a normal working hour.
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Aaron
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This would be great. It's a standard feature with most SMS programs already.
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Jin
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We work 4 days a week and some employees schedules are offset against others, having this feature would be very useful. I'd use it every Friday so people don't see my message until I'm back at work to respond to them on Tuesday.
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Anonymous
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Would also be useful when you want to send a non-urgent message to a colleague who you can see is in a meeting. At the moment, if you don't want to disturb, you have to send an email instead.
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Anonymous
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Would be super helpful, especially for those working across time zones
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Anonymous
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Yes, This would be tremendously helpful, to send delayed messages, as our team is trying to strictly use Teams as a primary mode of communication.
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Brian
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This is an essential addition for the message that you don't want to send at night to bother someone during their own time, but it is important and can not be forgotten. Especially now during COVID we need to be cognizant of our humanity and not interrupt our colleagues during their off hours. I end up still using Outlook for many messages that I would rather send from Teams or SharePoint. Please add the ability to delay send, ideal options would be 1) when next available online 2) at a certain time like the Outlook delay send option. Thanks in advance !