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Can't add apps to channel meetings
EdvinCedervall Hi, I can confirm the behavior but not sure here. When you're creating a personal meeting it's in your own mailbox and when you're selecting a channel for scheduling it belongs to the team and the group calendar (mailbox), but you still "own" the meeting. So if I must guess that is the difference and why this is happening.
Still, if the option is selected under the team settings team members can add a tab in a channel, but you cannot add it in a channel meeting apparently. Perhaps it has something to do with guests, as they are not allowed to add apps (tabs, bots, connectors) and that guests can be added later on etc.
Let's ask Vesa Nopanen 🙂
- Thank you for this clarification!
ChristianBergstrom Hi Christian!
Thank you for replying! 🙂
I think your guess might be correct - the difference is basically that the invitation comes from the teams mailbox, not my own.
I tried in several different Teams, some where all participants are owners and some where I'm the owner and the participants are members. Same result unfortunately.
I work at a high school so this mainly concerns scheduled "classes" in different Teams where the common denominator is that there is a teacher (owner of the Team) and students (participants). We are scheduling the classes through the calendar feature in Teams and connect them to the different Teams using the channels. We have no issues adding apps to the Teams but the feature to add the apps to the channel meetings is missing.- Hi! Thank you tagging me. Applications are not available in channel meetings. At least not yet. This isn't about guests or anything. You can add polls to the channel and access those via the chat but it is not the same as adding a application to a meeting.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-forms-blog/microsoft-forms-brings-polls-to-teams-meetings/bc-p/1925583/highlight/true#M1153Do you know if this is on the current roadmap, it's amazing functionality in the current Individual meetings and would be great to have it in Channel meetings (and meetNow) where individuals being OOO, moving on etc doesn't impact core ceremonies etc running on regular cadence.
Hi, can't see anything in the roadmap. But you can use apps in channel meetings, just not in the same context as in a standard meeting. It's a combination of your app setup policy and a workaround by adding the app directly in the channel (where the meeting take place). As an example, add Forms in the channel posts. Not the optimal functionality but at least something.
- "Applications are not available in channel meetings. At least not yet." All I needed to hear! Thanks for your quick reply 🙂
