Chat history to be shown to a new group chat member
For Microsoft Teams chat, when you add a new member into group chat which has three or more members, the new member can view the history chat. However, when you add other person into the existed one on one private chat, the newest member cannot view the chat history.
I would strongly request that a private chat to show the Conversation history to the newest member.
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Anonymous
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Hmmm, I guess it is only important to share chat history if 3 or more people are involved? Really?!
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Anonymous
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I could use this right now. Instead, I'll be copying and pasting into an email.
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Anonymous
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There is another issue again. On your group chat, when you are calling all members in the chat and when you add non-member of the group in the call, those added non-members in the call are automatically added in the group. Not sure if the chat history is available to those added non-members in the call or not. Options should be given at least while adding those non-members in the call i.e to give them access to view chat history or not.
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Anonymous Tech
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Please add the option to include or not include CHAT history when adding additional members to the CHAT. Should have this option regardless of CHAT type (private or group). I really find moving from 1:1 CHATs to Group Chats the key and I would like the option to KEEP or NOT KEEP the history of the 1:1 CHAT.
I agree. Please get this done asasp.
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Anonymous
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Please add the option to include or not include CHAT history when adding additional members to the CHAT. Should have this option regardless of CHAT type (private or group). I really find moving from 1:1 CHATs to Group Chats the key and I would like the option to KEEP or NOT KEEP the history of the 1:1 CHAT.
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Anonymous
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I agree
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Anonymous
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Yes and no! At least get an option to forward parts of a one on one chat to a new group chat so that other people that gets into the discussion later can easily get all the history.
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Anonymous
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I agree
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Anonymous
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Since one-on-one chats have a more private feel, sharing the history should require both parties to agree. It would also be useful to limit the range of the shared history, since these chats usually live a long time.
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Emily Cote
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Please add the history option to the one on one chat when adding someone new. I have an entire company that we are switching emails that has to copy and paste their chat history manually to save for reference. Also, when we switch out positions it would be good to be able to add the new person to the chat and select a certain time frame for them to see from the previous employees time.
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Gregg Stoughton
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Working in a support environment, typically, we start as a one on one chat. There may be several screenshots when working an issue. If a support member or a client is added to assist, we need to be able to have the history to bring them up to speed. Right now, we have to copy the conversation to allow the new member to be brought up to speed. This is very inefficient.
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Cheryl
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I needed this yesterday! Definitely add my vote in favor for this. I understand that this feature is not enabled to preserve the private functionality, but since we would be consciously utilizing this feature, privacy would remain intact.
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Mike
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I needed this function just this morning. I add my vote.
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kaz
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I strongly agree.
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Anonymous
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It should not be a problem to require both users of the chat to confirm adding the third user and converting the chat into a group chat. This is a highly requested feature in our organisation
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Brent Vierling
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I fully agree. Working remote now and have had multiple times just this morning that I wanted to do this so I went looking why it is this way and posted what I found below. My suggestion would be, let one user in a 1:1 chat add another user, and make the other party Approve the additional participant. This would make both parties acknowledge letting in another user in on the chat.
Here is what I found on the reasoning possibly of why it is this way. It is taken from a post on:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/why-is-new-quot-include-chat-history-quot-only-applicable-to/m-p/158836#"This is absolutely related to 1:1 expectations around privacy and intimacy. This feature is not dependant on the number of participants, but the context of the conversation; You're either chatting in a Team / Group where there is already an understanding that anything you publish will be viewable by everyone in the Team, and potentially more people as they're added OR you're chatting in a 1:1 session outside any Team / Group where there is an understanding that the conversation is private and restricted to just the two parties.
My point is this; in a 1:1 chat between two people, neither one has the right to say whether a third person should have the right to read what's been said by the other, because that conversation was considered to be private... through the expectation of what a 1:1 chat is. Granted, in some scenarios both users might find that useful because the conversation might go somewhere they didn't expect, and they need to pull someone in. But if the conversation might go there then start the chat as group / meeting rather than 1:1.
I think they've got this right personally, because of the expectation around what a 1:1 chat should be... private." -
Rajat singh
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yes, I would like to add a third person to a chat and allow them to view history.
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Barry
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Please add the ability to show chat history when you add a third person to an existing one 2 one chat. It's bizarre that you can do this on chats with three or more people but not with two people!
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Anonymous
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This is definitely one to sort out - why limit it to three or more? Chats often just start out one-to-one.
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Anonymous
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I would like to add a third person to a chat and allow them to view the history.