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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I was having a 1:1 chat and needed to add another person to the conversation. But Teams wants to start a brand new chat - which wouldn't have the several paragraphs of conversation that were in the first chat.
It's frustrating that can only do this if the original chat has at least 3 people - and the limitation doesn't make sense. If it's a concern about privacy then just give the other person a prompt asking if they consent
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Dixie Arnold
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Please add this feature, why even give the option to add someone to a private conversation if you cannot control whether or not they can view the history? The whole point of adding them in most cases is because you want to include them in what you are already talking about!
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Anonymous
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This limitation is just stupid for a business tool. There isn't any obvious difference between a 1:1 conversation and a 1:3+ one.
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Anonymous
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Please add this as an option.
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Anonymous
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this is a must needed feature.
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Anonymous
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At least make this a setting that can be controlled by our own Administrators so that we can set the policy within our work environment to allow adding members to existing 1:1 chats. Useless tool if you cannot collaborate easily! That is why I don't monitor my Teams and ask that people contact me via email or my cell.
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Anonymous
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I cannot believe there isn't a solution. Maybe add a feature to where the two OPs have to 'consent' to the 'private' chat being shared. Ridiculous, but if that's what it takes, I don't care. I have a TON of content (including files) I need to share to a 3rd person and it simply isn't possible. This is by far a HUGE oversight.
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Anonymous
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This is needed. I often start a conversation with one person and then would like to pull another person.
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Lori C
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I agree we need to be able to add a 3rd to a 1:1 chat. For example, I can be having a chat with a member of my team but need to add in our supervisor or someone from another department and they NEED to see the conversation for their own understanding and be able to respond to things that were already touched on instead of me having to type out the entire conversation again. Some of our conversations include links to different webpages and it is a waste of time to have to start the conversation over again.
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Anonymous
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Please add this option
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Warren Cole
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I run into this daily. Please consider prioritizing this.
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Anonymous
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I would like to add my voice to this request. This is a very annoying limitation, and the supposed privacy justification for it is moot at my company, where we purge chat histories rather regularly. It is very common to reach out to somebody over Teams for assistance and then after some back and forth, reaching a wall where we need to bring in a third person to proceed. The inability for them to access the chat history is very disruptive, and copy/pasting the chat history is not possible in many cases (and annoying even when it is possible). Thanks to the purging, the 1:1 conversation often has no prior chat history when this need arises, so it's not like there's even any unrelated prior chat history to worry about pulling in. And even if there was, isn't that what the option to limit chat history to X days is for?
If the concern is really privacy, couldn't you just make it so the second person in the 1:1 chat has to approve the addition of the third person? That way there's a mutual consent between both original parties that it's ok to share the full or partial chat history with the new person.
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Anonymous
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Agree, please add the option to show chat history to new attendees in one-on-one chats.
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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.