Forum Discussion
Add Group Chat As A Channel
Hi all,
I am wondering if there is a way to make a channel in a team that behaves the same as a group chat.
I understand the advantages and disadvantages of conversations vs chats. Basically I like having conversation for work related things, the threads are good for organizations etc. At the same time I would prefer having a channel for general chit chat that behaves like a group chat (with the reply behavior of a chat and the general flow of a chat.)
Yes I could just make a group chat that has the same members as my team but it is less comfortable to continuously go between the Teams tab and the Chats tab, and also inviting members to both the Group and the Chat can be annoying when there are many of them.
Is there a way to do this that I missed?
Just gonna add my whole org to this need as well. Hospitals need a chat that can be provisioned by an o365 group. We dont have savvy users that can muddle with adding and subtracting people from chat.
MS...HELLOOOOOO
- Nowadays channels are big no-no for everyone. Little thing, that can be made is separate chat app in Channel Tab. That's awful, but true:(
almost 2025 and nothing...
- There is many ways this could be implemented, but the current Channel -> Post ->Chat-ish scheme not useful by any means. All the environment for Teams/Sharepoint/... works really well and are really usefull to keep track of files, discussions and so on. But I can't convince anyone (sometime neither myself) to use Channels for those discussion because they are just inconvenient.
1 - The app just ain't designed to notify and present the content from those channels by default.
2 - Posts instead of promoting the current discussion just hide their contents.
3 - No one is willing to address their issues at some obscure section that never present others messages.
I could be complain about many issues that make those channels just a waste of the framework, but let me suggest a few things:
1 - DROP posts, they are not usefull as is.
2 - Let a Channel be also represented by a single contiguous chat.
3 - Optionally, you can use posts to expand/collapse meetings contents when you schedule it into a channel.
4 - Optionally, you can have some sort of Post Scheme that is attached to a channel for give some highlight over some sort of announce.
I call 3 and 4 optional since just dropping off the current post implementation and moving to a simple chat is a great improvement by itself, I don't any of us is relying into Posts since they are just not useful. Nevertheless, you may want to to have a switching option before replacing current implementation.
Is microsoft able to solve this? ohanoch I cant believe that Team's doesn't have this. This is the one area where Slack is so much better.
I can create chats, but individual chats dont have the management ability of a team/group. Plus, you're limited to only 15 pinned chats.
- +1 here too
- +1 to all the frustration shared here. We only use Chats for Project Management and Document sharing because the Posts format in the Channels is so clumsy. This is in no way ideal as files shared in Chats are stored on the Personal Onedrive.
Dear Microsoft!!!
PLEASE let us create "Chat format" chats in the Channels 🙏🙏🙏I just created a group in Teams/SharePoint/etc for emergency management and it would certainly be nice to have a general chat tab for quick and easy questions and answers, and even small, non-post-worthy notifications.
The current Posts tab is clunky and operates too much like Facebook or LinkedIn for our purposes.
- I'm still waiting for this kind of change. All the microsoft framework (sharepoint, azure, calendar and so on) is centered at teams and channels at teams. Unfortunately, teams channels are a really bummer. You cannot access discussions within channels as regular chats, notifications are not an obvious setting. It seems that they try to organize converstations on a compact way but at the very end they just provide you with an inconvenient with low visibility to current conversations.
- I was looking into a way of doing it as well. Hope microsoft turns it into a feature soon.
