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Auto hide previous conversation
We've just been force "upgraded" to teams from Skype for business and I am trying to find a way to auto hide previous conversations. I use IM quite a bit but I also quite frequently present informati...
Sort Answer is you can't.
Long answer for work around is, you can hide all your chats, which I know is annoying, but next time you chat with them your history will still pop back in.
Another way to send quick message while presenting etc. Use @username [message] in the command bar at the top, this will send a quick chat to someone without having to leave your screen. And you can respond to a banner toast in the toast itself. Yeah not ideal, but it's all you have for now.
Long answer for work around is, you can hide all your chats, which I know is annoying, but next time you chat with them your history will still pop back in.
Another way to send quick message while presenting etc. Use @username [message] in the command bar at the top, this will send a quick chat to someone without having to leave your screen. And you can respond to a banner toast in the toast itself. Yeah not ideal, but it's all you have for now.
Thanks for the tip about the quick message, this might help a bit....although you still have to open up teams and expose the current conversation to get to that point anyway, still risking the last contacts potential confidential conversation.
This seems like a massive security/personal information flaw to not provide any way of keeping this information hidden.
Why are we being forced to upgrade to something that has loads of extra functionality that was never necessary and is missing key bits of functionality that worked perfectly fine before?