Ability to archive Chat Conversations
Please add the ability to archive and/or delete conversation history form the Chat conversations. It's terrible to open a chant while sharing a screen and everyone sees your past chats.
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Jerry
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We had an instance today where we held a webinar-style meeting on one subject, and a participant who attended a different subject webinar started chatting on that previous meeting and expecting answers to THIS meeting's subject. Having an option with a way to Archive, or lock out new chats on a previous meeting would prevent this from happening.
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Amber Cochran
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I am not sure if this is exactly the feature I am looking for, but I think so. I agree that we should be able to start a fresh chat as needed. I would also like the ability to take a portion of a long chat and group it or tag it in some way that it can easily found (i.e. I want to see all the chats I tagged in relation to Process XYZ). And possibly even then email that tagged subchat to someone or to have it searchable in my outlook. I frequently have done this with Lync/Skype chats, saving them to outlook and them moving them to the folder in my outlook that pertains to what was discussed.
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GRDP
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Would like to have the capability to initiate a new chat with another without all the past historical chats with that person appearing. The past chat history should be saved in Exchange in a similar way that skype for business used to save. This would speed up the application since it would not have to repopulate the complete private chat history when starting a new chat conversation.
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JJ30
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We would like to start archiving incident channels that are not being used anymore. We have over 100 chats and this is also affecting the performance of the application itself.
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Anonymous
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Chat and channel conversation archiving, retatation policy could be setup for every Team depending of its needs.
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Anonymous
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Hi, I need to be able to archive past chats from employees across the company, that are older than say 3 months. Currently this is not available, can this not be made an option as part of outlook archiove or be added similar to that.
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Anonymous
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Need to be able to archive past chats from employees that leave the company. Currently, when an employee leaves the company, all information received from that person is gone forever. This completely deters me from using Teams to exchange any technical information one-on-one with someone, because I know that information will disappear if that user leaves the company. This is a bizarre design plan with Teams, in my opinion.
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Anonymous
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This is a HIPAA and other risk. As a manager who uses Teams to collaborate with his team, my chats history across all team members is huge. Would like some sort of ability to archive, rather than delete x chat from x date
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Anonymous
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Didn't read all twelve comments, but here is some food for thought. I just copied everything in the chatroom and paste it to a word doc; save word doc in share drive. Delete chatroom & create a new chatroom.
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Samantha Kitchen
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I am forwarding all our generic customer service emails to a teams channel so my team can co-ordinate on who is responding, but the channel is getting full of spam from the email and there is no way to hide it or archive it so we can easily see the real emails - very annoying!
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Anonymous
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If you are doing any type of screen sharing, this is critical functionality to have. Even if you hide your recent chats (which shows the last line of every chat you have had for all to see), the full chat history of the last chat you had is still front and center. There is no easy way to keep it 'safe' from accidental disclosure of information.
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Steve
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I agree, I frequently share my screen with a team and could easily end up sharing a potentially confidential conversation because teams insists on keeping all my previous conversations right in front of me, even a snippet of every recent conversations is visible!
In skype for business, if I opened it up all I could see was contacts, and opening a new conversation started with a clean view....and if I wanted to see old conversations, there was a separate view for that.
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Adam Allen
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I find that this would be very helpful to be able and archive chat conversations. The reasoning behind why this would be a good idea is that say you have a project you are working on at one time. Once that project is finished you can archive the conversation about that project. Just a thought.
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Joey Mikell
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All of the comments are correct, you have created a tool that is an open security breach in my opinion. When someone comes to my desk, when i share my screen, I cannot delete or hide what was said in the past. Come on guys, this is a really dumb idea, what about my privacy, you should issue a screen viewing shield with every install of teams where we can control what can be seen on our screen
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MATTHEW PARKS
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This is very important from few perspectives. One, to assist in the data transfer from one floor to another upon an employee's exit from the organization. Two, in the event that something malicious or inappropriate it said in a chat to be able to document that for disciplinary purposes. And third, the opposite is true, retention of said chat maybe crucial to protecting an employee or something was alleged to have been said inappropriately and the chat provides proof that it wasn't.
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HorstP
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Sometimes conversations have to be kept for documentation purpose, even if there are retention policies in place that force deletion after a specific time period.
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RoyS
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The old 'conversations' folder in Outlook for Skype calls and chats was far more flexible. I appreciate Teams is working in a more company-centric way but it really needs to have far more functionality and flexibility.
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Mattie
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Conversations get overwhelmed and would be good to clear out the feed occasionally but still be able to look back on them as necessary.
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Anonymous
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I agree, we are using Teams for management of a project and once conversations in respect of bugs/defects have been resolved it would be great to be able to archive them, or move them to a Closed bucket.
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Devashis Sarangi
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To provide the use case: We use channels for conversations on topics. Sometime there are more than 25 topics in flight and gets clunky to find the topic/conversation to reply to. If we can archive conversations (example move it to even top in the channel) so that active conversations stay at bottom.
Or: provide a button that says mark closed. And reopen. Mark closed should move it top. If some one wants to reopen can mark reopen and continue the conversations