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Make public channel private

It would be nice to convert some of our already established channels to private now the feature is available in the same way it may be desired to de-classify a private channel to public at some point too.

Currently a channel privacy can only be set during creation.

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  • K. Zessner commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I was extremely excited when the new feature for "private" labeling of channels within a team was introduced. This made our work easier, as my environment often involves working with confidential topics and documents. However, in our fast paced environment, changes in team structures are commonplace - so we urgently need the ability to privatize and de-privatize channels.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This needs to happen at a minimum, and further the sharing for SharePoint and OneDrive still needs improvement. The way sharing is controlled Is very clunky. We need to be able to share and un-share, make private or non-private and see easily who as access. Having private channels is progress but keep going on improving the sharing interface. Your competitors do this much better.

  • Nilesh Malde commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is very much required feature to change earlier created public channel to private in public team where you need to have control on some of the stuff offered to team in systematic way. Now creation of private channel is possible. So change of public channel created earlier to private is vital to avoid transfer of work from one channel to other channel.

    Similarly permission on file could be assigned to selected users in that channel of public team.

  • Fernando Scheps Serra commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Oh come on, this is basic stuff, we need to move things out of a channel, delete it, re-create it and then move the content back in....this clearly was not well thought and should have been part of the change to add private channels.

  • Terje Vatle commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes! It would be useful to have the ability to change privacy settings after creation. Also there should be privacy on underlaying Sharepoint files structures as well in a simple way thru Teams.

    Btw if you first create a channel "XYZ" as public, then delete it and try to recreate "XYZ" as private, an error message will be prompted: "XYZ is not unique". It's like Teams doesn't clean up properly. Quite frustrating...

  • Lotte commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Couldn't agree more! We have many existing 'private' Teams where we would want to make the current channels private so we add some new public channels and invite people from other departments.

  • Chris commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Seriously thinking about switching to slack because this isn't possible on teams.

  • J.D. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, please! Sometimes team membership changes or the scope of an initial project changes, and this allows for the flexibility around changing the classification of existing channels.

  • Matt Pugh commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is desperately needed. I'll state the obvious that your competitors have this function already.

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