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Tagging specific groups of people within the same team.
Definitely a valid use case - I wanted to do this today. We have a project team site that has our core team plus stakeholders. I wanted to draw attention to a survey for the core team but had to type in their names individually as I didn't want to spam all using the @team tag ...
Garry @ Selfridges
Garry, why not have a channel for your core team? then you can either post in there, or @mention the channel from general to only notify the people following that channel.
Yes. Having a separate channel or team works for something like that. However there are times where I don't care if anyone in the main group could see, but I want it to specifically notify a group of people within a group.
We have over 200 people in our Department team and a bunch of fragmented groups, but sometimes we have to post the information in several channels to get the point across, where it might make more sense to not have a full blown separate "team" but a separate channel that we could exclude members from or tagging of specific channels across all channels of a group.
Like my analogy above. I don't want to post a message in the Cooks Team that there is a problem in the Kitchen. I want to just tag "Cooks" in the main restaurant team yet still have the message be seen by everyone in the restaurant. Also, the more channels you add, the more fragmented the message gets and it gets tougher to use Teams as a solution for macro and micro problems. This is kind of a "medium" problem, but it would be incredibly useful in our application of it.
That's more or less what it does.
If you have a channel called cooks, and your encourage your cooks to follow that channel, you can then use @cooks from any other channel in that team. The notification goes to the people following the channel you @mentioned. The post doesn't need to be in their channel.
