Separate Individual chats from Meeting chats
One of the biggest issues I have with Teams is individual chats getting lost among the meeting chats. Many of the meetings are things we get pulled into that I don't care about to start with. Manually having to hide 5-10 of these a day is tedious. When I'm on the Chat tab, I'd like to see individual chats. When I'm on the Meetings tab, I would expect to see Meeting chats. If nothing else, maybe a dropdown filter to choose which chats to show on the Chat tab would suffice.
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Cody S.
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I agree 100% with this. Another tab or filter would make this so much easier to manage. Folks in my organization have taken to using recurring meeting chats as a place to converse frequently and it has made finding my 1:1 chats increasingly difficult to find and continue.
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Oblio Leitch
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Perhaps we should rephrase this: I need to be able to better manage chats that come from past meetings, whether we've left the meeting or not, and chats that we've had directly with other individuals. We need to be able to remove, archive, sort and search these past conversations.
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Carol Bordignon
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Maybe a way to select your preferred filters that get remembered; Private, Group, Meetings.
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Nick Balestrino
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It would be great if meeting chats were in a separate collapsable group: Pinned, Recent, Meeting
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Anonymous
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Roadmap 57292 is now in progress. I received an announcement today to expect by end of May 2020.
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Anonymous
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We have yet to roll out Teams across our company and this is one of the reasons. Skype is heavily used for two functions, instant messaging and web conferencing, and they don't get in each others way. In Teams if you are working in a Team or a document and you get a Chat message; you have to leave what you are doing and go to the chat.
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Anonymous
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This is the biggest design flaw in Teams. I absolutely hate the clutter of meetings and chats. I get the design idea but its not implemented well. It is very frustrating and a time waster to look for private or group chats that are not meetings. Filter does not allow us to just see private or group chats. We can only filter on keywords or meetings. Not Good. As a result, we continue to use Skype for private chats and Teams is a glorified WebEx. Albeit much better than WebEx.
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Colleen Lueken
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This is critical. It is not necessary to keep meeting chats in the general chat left hand sidebar. At least weekly, someone will post a message in a meeting chat that is meant to be a direct message with the last person who posted something in it. For example, we may have an all-hands meeting where a few notes were shared in the chat, then a few days later, someone messages the entire company asking of so-and-so is ready for lunch. If this is happening at our company it must be happening elsewhere. It's a bad UI.
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Shirin Zohdi
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I agree. this would be very helpful
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Sarah Ruppe
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I agree! It would be helpful to be able to see the chat window and other windows at the same time rather than having to leave the chat entirely while you have to look at something else in Teams.
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Julian
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Agreed on pop-out window idea.
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Chris Donovan
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Chats should absolutely be a pop-out window! This would help tremendously especially when trying to share your screen directly in MS Teams (i.e. showing a To Do list within a given Team) and other pings come through.
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Carl Hunt
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I agree - it could be achieved through Group Chat / Individual Chat tab within the Chat Window.
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Tina
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Exactly! And it would be great if you could pop chats out of the main window. Chat's get in the way of seeing other windows in Chat. I need to be able to see the chat window and other windows simultaneously.
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Anonymous
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Completely agree
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Mike O'Neill
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UI feels clunky, should have the flexibility to allow window resizing.