Display the description of the team and channels
Every team and channel has a description that can be entered, yet there doesn't seem to be any way to see that description unless you can edit. How about making the description visible under the title in the right window? Maybe even a setting that allows me to make descriptions visible or not (on/off switch).
Stephen
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Seldom Needy
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Seriously, though. This is a basic feature in similar applications like Discord and Slack (even many IRC applications make this readily available). Sometimes, more than just the channel-name is helpful to determine where to post something. I'm a little baffled why this hasn't been made available as a Teams feature yet.
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Anonymous
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YES! We've just started using Teams and it would be SO HELPFUL to view the description associated with the Channels.
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Dominic
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yes please! This is a no brainer. What's the point of having a channel description that you can't see?
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Anonymous
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Wow - this post is from 2018... It should be a no-brainer that a channel can be set to always show description in the top!
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Anonymous
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Agreed. Or like an introduction box somehwere where one can write what is included in each channel.
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Anonymous
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So here we are, the the WHOLE ******** WORLD is relying on Teams, and there are so many bits of shoddy interface and poor performance like this.
Why can't you just show the description?
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Orla
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YES! so needed
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SKn
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UPVOTE! A setting to make descriptions permanently visible would also be helpful to inform about (and thus enforce) channel usage policies with team members.
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cz
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UPVOTE! Totally agree with comment!
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aw
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Channel names are not always enough for people to post messages in the right channel. It would really help if the channel description is shown very prominent so people can see what the channel is about
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Karel
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Up-voted. Totally agree with the comment 'What is the point of having a description if it doesn't show?'
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Xaser512
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UPVOTE. Totally. Entered many descriptions just to discover now, that noone might ever see this.
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Siv Skogstad
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UPVOTE! What is the point of having a description if it does'nt show?
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Cristian Pop
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Up-voted. This seems to be one of those things where you build a flying car that can go 2000 miles per hour, but someone forgot to install the windshield. Hovering gives you the name of the channel? Sheeesh
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Ian Loveridge
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A sticky or other way to see the description of what the channel is about, visible to the users when they switch between channels would stop typing in the wrong channel.
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Mathieu
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Would be nice to display the description when hovering over the team/channel name.
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Anonymous
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This is a must - doesn't make sense to have the feature of a description when it's invisible
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Anonymous
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Yes youneed to 1) describe the team 2) It is good practice is to describe a channels 'purpose' but you cannot pin this message in the feed or view in channel properties.
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Nicholas Campbell
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Yes, now that I've created a description of the channel I created, how can I make this visible to my team colleagues?
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Anonymous
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Urgently require this feature as we roll Teams out across our Org Microsoft. Please make channel descriptions visible.