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).
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Chas
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Yes, this is 100% necessary. I am in Teams overload now as we deploy, and having the description in the banner, either under the Public/Private and Classification identifier or to the left of it would help immensely with remembering what the purpose of each team (and ultimately channel) is for.
We used this kind of display in Slack with immense success to establish a 'ticketing' system of urgency for requests, and having it at the top of the screen was key. We need something similar to that for Teams. Even if it was a mouse-over on the Team and/or Channel name it would be helpful, but a constant display is best.
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Karen
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Please add this functionality
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Juraj
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agree - hover text + searchability
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Anonymous
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What's the point of having a description if nobody can see it?! Unbelievably dumb!
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Clix
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upvote, show the description when hovering over the channel name
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Jacob Kenner
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This is a no-brainer and would take moments to implement. Why should I have to manage a channel or team to see this? Why have a description you can't easily see? The lack of showing the description easily makes finding the right channel in a big team nearly impossibly time consuming. It should probably show at the top in a hover text from the channel name. It should show as part of the helper mouseover text when you hover on a channel name (along with the full channel name). Maybe make it configurable to go away, but at least show it.
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Bennet
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Vote! Each Channel need to have the ability to show static on top (never scrolls) a brief description for the users what belongs there and what are the rules for the channel - like this is the case in any other FORUM software
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Mattyboyz@charter.net
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UPVOTE: can't believe that someone went to all the trouble of creating a description box for a channel that can never be viewed. Epic Fail. Please add a mouse over or right click option.
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Anonymous
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Yes, this would be very useful, to inform team or channel members about the purpose . Please add this functionality. MANY THANKS
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Anonymous
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Agreed! The channels would be so much more useful if people would read the description and know what belongs there!
I don't think hovertext would do the job because sometimes the description is longer. It might have to be hyperlinked somewhere... or maybe the first 200 characters or so could be displayed in a shaded box at the top of the channel content. If 200 characters were exceeded, there would be a "more..." link or something similar.
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Michael Agius Muscat
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upvote
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Chrissie
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Need both the team and channel descriptions to be easily displayed somewhere. Mouseover would satisfy for both.
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Anonymous
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Another vote for description visibility
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Anonymous
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yes, display by default (as you can display it already now if you click on the title (and going to 'Manage team')...but it would be good to display this 'by default'
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Carole
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It would be good if you could actually see the description, no point adding any otherwise
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Kathy
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It doesn't make sense to ask users to complete an area of information that can't be displayed or used.
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Anonymous
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UPVOTE - the description is useless without it being visible from the main screen. How about displaying it when you hover over the channel?
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Hal Armstrong
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UPVOTE: Why have channel descriptions if there is no clue in the GUI that they exist? You can only see if you edit it? Not a good UX in my opinion!
While you are at it, add ability to insert hyperlinks so we can keep descriptions shorter by not having to copy text from elsewhere.
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Anonymous
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Or even via the right-click action
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Nico
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Definitely agreed! It could be displayed just below the breadcrumb, like the Team description is displayed in the Team's details in a line below the Team name.
