Better visibility for custom Status Message
The new status message feature is great, but it lacks visibility to other users. It would be much more useful to make it visible in the chat area user list, rather than having to hover over a user to find it in the drop down. It would also be great to have it anywhere you can see user presence.
Dan Kellett
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Anonymous
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PLEASE consider making it easier to see Team members' status. I am the receptionist at our office, and with the daily changes of who is working from home/ who is out/ who is here, it's so hard to keep up!
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PhB
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Users are not directly see your status (especially when the color is red) and don't know if you are in a call, in a meeting or "just" busy as it is on Skype for business, and base on that disturb you inappropriately that is very boring.
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Anonymous
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This needs to pop up as an actual message to the person messaging you instead of lurking in the shadowy grey bar above where they type. I want something that can be made bold or in color. If they type a message to us, it should pop up as a "reply" on the screen, so it's a response to what they're doing instead of them having to hunt around the screen for it.
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Anonymous
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Echoing others - better visibility for status and location for users would be awesome - if the status was integrated with outlook and if I could not just view individual statuses but see an overview of my whole team it would be great!
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Ben
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Agreed, it's a bit of an extra step to have to hover over names to see custom status. Perhaps the 'Available' option could be a place where you could type in the timeframe you will be in the office on any given day or week and could display in the chat user list right under the person's name - still avoiding clutter. The custom status could be for more complicated messages and would still require hovering.
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Chris
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I agree. It is easier for others to know my daily schedule, since my hours are variable each day.
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Wendy J
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Several of my coworkers use the 'location' field to post their schedule for the week. It's a great convenience. I am disappointed that a similar feature is not available in Teams.
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Neil
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I really miss this functionality with Skype.
We used the 2-line Contacts view in Skype, which showed the each Contact's custom status message on the 2nd line. So all we needed to do is scroll up and down throughout the list to quickly see all of them. Now, in the Teams desktop app, we have to hover (and wait) over each Contact's icon to view his or her status message. And I don't see a way to view a Contact's status message AT ALL on the Android app.
It's nice that it's relatively easy to change your own status message, but frustrating and disappointing that they are so hard to view others' status messages.
With Skype gone, now it's more difficult to see what my team is up to in Teams. -
Anonymous
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We are about to go to teams from Skype
Not having this feature will hinder my productivity -
Anonymous
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No idea why they didn't transfer this functionality from Skype...
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Rasmus J.
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It's insane that this isn't in the system at default. We use this all the time, especially now that some are working from home and others aren't. We use this to let people know our working status and this is a huge hit compared to skype for business! This should be Implemented ASAP!
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Kelly
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I can't believe this feature doesn't exist. Our staff used to use Skype and they had this feature and loved it. They could set their status to say "out to lunch be back at 1:00pm" or "teleworking today" or "reach me on my cell". I simply can not see "at a glance" scrolling through my staff members what their custom status is. PLEASE FIX THIS!!
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LeeAnna Goodman
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This would be a great feature, knowing what your team member is doing in an instant would be nice and helpful during the workday!
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Mel Linnemeyer
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The lack of this is a big concern for us, too. Quick visibility is imperative to our efficiencies and production for many companies using Teams for business use; especially the larger ones, I'd think.
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Ken R
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Would like to see this capability in the Apple IOS app as well as the desktop.
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Narily Noon
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We def need this!
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Kinetha Delgado
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I completely agree! If the status could stay visible that would be great!
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Anonymous
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It should REPLACE the default presence message,. The presence icon could remain the same.
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Matthew Del Rocco
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It's really useful (and fun frankly) to scan through everyone's statuses. Would love to have this Skype/Lync feature in Teams!
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Murray
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I echo the same thoughts as other on this thread - having to hover over each person's icon diminishes usefulness of the status message and is much less likely to be seen. DIsplaying them directly in the contacts list as in Skype for Business would help a lot.
If a person doesn't wish to view such messages in their contact list, provide an option for them to only show on hover, but otherwise display by default.