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terrenceNokia
Jan 10, 2022Brass Contributor
Can no longer add People to a chat and include chat history in Microsoft Teams?
Used to be able to add additional people to a chat and get option to show chat history with add person icon at top of screen. Now, when press button you only get the option to start a brand new grou...
Tim_Smith
May 17, 2022Copper Contributor
Parth1010 I believe MS intentionally blocks the odd uncle issue with 1:1 chats due to ethical concerns. I would defer to a MS Champion to confirm.
Adding users to group chats is not a problem on our current update, but your mileage may vary.
Personally I am happy not being able to add people with chat history to a 1:1 chat, and having a group chat start with no history when the first user is added. That is the behavior now and not a problem.
Others may disagree and escalate. Please respond if anyone knows better.
JimmyYang
May 31, 2022Copper Contributor
Tim_Smith In my opinion, this functionality should not be removed. Instead, it should set the "don't share history" as the default option.
- Nadia_PhillipsOct 07, 2022Copper Contributor
Having a choice would give us the best of both worlds - a prominent default option that the history won't be shared but with the option to disable that.
- corinbJan 06, 2023Copper Contributor
This may be intermittent or perhaps only an issue when converting a single user chat to multi-user as no option to show history is available. I can understand perhaps and earlier point you inadvertently include too much chat history which may not be desirable, perhaps even adding a customer and having internal only conversation previously, but potentially this could also occur in multi-user chat when adding more people. But also having to repaste a lot of conversation for a new users and original user or users now having to also see this also is not ideal, so unsure what is best solution here as today was not able to change a single user chat to multi-user with history which was not ideal:-( I swear a few days ago was able to select a certain amount of chat history for a multi-user chat.
- michaelfloodJan 06, 2023Brass Contributor
corinb like with anything we type, we can make mistakes including things we didn’t need to. Limiting chat is not helping me from making mistakes. Only I can do that. Offer the entire feature with options and I will be responsible for the content. Sometimes the chats go a long time and are so numerous.
Easy fix, just allow the feature and let us decide how to use it.
- ExcelntJul 08, 2022Copper ContributorI agree with JimmyYang on this one. I use Teams Chat heavily to collaborate with co-workers. I appreciate being asked if I want to share Chat history - that's an important check - but I _do_ need to be able to share history to bring new people into a conversation without copying or re-hashing everything that went before. Seems very strange to me that they would remove this capability from a tool that's supposed to be promoting collaboration.