Create/start a chat for a Contact Group
It would be great if we can create/start a new chat based off a Contact Group. Rather than adding each person individually to a chat, the fact that they are part of a group would be so convenient to just right-click the Contact Group name, say 'Start Chat' and it would initiate a new chat will all members in the group.
Mark Sandico
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Chas
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This is so no-brainer. I just wasted a ton of time thinking I was short-circuiting the laborious 'add a user' motion, to find out this logical approach doesn't exist.
It's time MS gets serious about this app.
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Anonymous
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Agree that this would be good functionality to have in the client.
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Tim Moxon
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Get it done guys
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Ralf Weitzel
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Yes, right-clicking on groups to start a chat is to be expected. Wasted a lot of time looking for the functionality, doubting myself.
If such a solution is to be rolled out in Enterprises, people have to get the "core experience" they are used from Skype (not talking about our horrible Skype-for-Business experiment but the consumer version.)
The seamless group-chat functionality might collide with the channel concept at first look, but I see channel more in a organisational area while in my groups the personal network / individually relevant topics are discussed.
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Jacob Solliday
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After you have created a contact group, you should be able to just right click on it and send a message to the group. This just makes sense.
What is the point in a contact group if you can not choose to message the group?
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Steve Faunt
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I agree - I can't see the functionality in contact groups without being able to start a group chat with a few clicks - the current method of adding individuals one by one seems labour intensive.
There are many circumstances where the creation of a Team isn't appropriate but a simple contact group would be perfect for end users to quickly initiate a group chat. -
Matthias Bartosik
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The fact that Chat has tabs for "Recents" and "Contacts" and that the groups in Contacts can not be used to start a Chat is bonkers. You should have a "Chat" option when you open the "..." for a contact group, also the contact groups you have should turn up in the auto-complete when you start a new chat.
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Oystein Lund
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If Teams really are taking over Skype, this is a must
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Anonymous
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Fully agree. It would even be more useful if these contact groups can be used as well in conversations within a team feed (provided that the people in the contact group are also team members). It would allow tagging only a part of the team (without having to specifically tag every name) in cases where not anyone is concerned by the topic of the conversation.
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Mike
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Came here to post this same thing. In Skype, I can right-click a group name and start a group chat with this people really easily. We need this functionality in Teams.
Also, in Skype I can Ctrl+Click on multiple people form my contacts list and then start a group chat with this people. I can't do this in Teams at all. It's time consuming and annoying to have to start a chat with one person and then manually add all the other people after the fact.