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Changing Channel from private
Hi,
so after searching I cannot find the answer to this.
I've created a team that will have channels in it representing different projects.
I've made one channel private so that I can choose which team members have access to it.
But now, I want to revoke that and allow all team members to see the channel.
I can't figure out how though.
Other than deleting the channel and that isn't an option.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
- You can transfer any collaborated documents from one library to another, easily enough. But AFAIK you cannot transfer text chats.
If you REALLY need to retain the chat, the admin can download all Team chats in a CSV that you could cut down to just include chat from this channel and share it as an Excel file. Not quite as usable but at least the info and discussion isn't lost.
Alternatively, screenshot the messages you need to retain, or somehow look at retaining the channel but locking it to further discussion.
- When you create a private channel in a Team/Group it creates a whole new separate SharePoint site for storage. Really not the point about Teams and Groups, where the entire thinking is Groups with different audiences.
Since you can't undo it, IMO you're best of not doing it and creating a new closed Group for this subset of the audience, to maintain logic and a sensible structure. - This discussion is about changing CHANNELS from public to private or vice versa - not about changing the TEAM privacy setting, which is easy to do as you've posted.
Any updates here? Trying to figure out if I need to set aside some time to move everything into a new channel...
- There is still no known way, CaseyMcD. Until now there is no way. The only way is to delete the channel.
One reason I have for wanting to change my private channel to public is because there is functionality iI can't have in the private channel. e.g. I can't have Forms or Tasks. I can have connectors but those are connectors to Forms in the main Team in which case it is no longer private.
When will Microsoft allow these types of apps to be used within a private channel?
thanks
Julie
I am now reconfiguring all my teams. You cannot change channels from public to private or vise-versa as some instructions on the net elude to.
Also, when creating new channels, if you screw up and forget to make it private, you cannot delete it and then immediately create a new one with the same name. That may work after the retention period has expired.
I guess this was the only way to have private channels in Teams as it sits on top of SharePoint. I doubt Teams was actually meant to have private channels as it defeated the whole "Team" concept.
Poor planning from MS for not understanding what the community wanted and needed I am thinking."Also, when creating new channels, if you screw up and forget to make it private, you cannot delete it and then immediately create a new one with the same name. That may work after the retention period has expired."
This is a workaround method:
- rename the channel
- delete it
- create a new one with the same name (You can choose either public or private for the new channel)
- Even I have the same issue, any workaround would be highly appreciated
- Once you make a channel private, you cannot revet back to public...at least for now this is not a feature provided in Teams
jcgonzalezmartin It is idiotic to not have the option of changing a channel you built in private to get it to the way you want it before you made it public to the team you made it in.
Thanks for the info. I have the same issue. That's kind of annoying that I can't make my channels public.
- WTF?!?
