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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...
- 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.
The reasoning behind this is that a private channel is in fact an embedded private team within that Team. If you look at sharepoint, this is a complete new site collection.
Although I understand, this is a bit frustrating to me personally.
Syncing the whole file structure is impossible this way.
I wanted to make some public channels private, but this is also impossible, just like the way around like Kev mentioned. I really hope some improvements to this are in the dev pipeline.
Although I understand, this is a bit frustrating to me personally.
Syncing the whole file structure is impossible this way.
I wanted to make some public channels private, but this is also impossible, just like the way around like Kev mentioned. I really hope some improvements to this are in the dev pipeline.
This has caused me more trouble than I expected. I'm still fairly new to Teams and SharePoint admin so maybe and there is a workaround.
Seeing as I can now NOT turn my private channel (proj1) back to public, I've had to create a new Team with a new channel called proj1. Ideally I need to move all the contents from the private channel in the other team into this new team/channel so I can continue to work with the relevant permissions/members applied.
Can anyone please advise on this?
Seeing as I can now NOT turn my private channel (proj1) back to public, I've had to create a new Team with a new channel called proj1. Ideally I need to move all the contents from the private channel in the other team into this new team/channel so I can continue to work with the relevant permissions/members applied.
Can anyone please advise on this?
- 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. kevjackson While you can't just switch it back to public (there are some privacy implications here to be aware of, for instance if someone posted something that was supposed to be private in a small group and then that was made public - institutionally, people may need to scrub through the entire chat history if making a channel public again), what you can do is just give everybody on the team permissions to that private channel, effectively making it public. That is a better way to ensure you don't unintentionally give access to people that shouldn't have access in the future, though it does take more administrative work.
- Is there a way to make it easier administratively in adding the rest of the team members?
For example, if I knew a private channel is created due to smaller scope, but anticipated to get bigger, is it possible to add a group of members at once? Perhaps a feature wherein members are grouped together by function or something (I don't think there is that feature)?
Thanks. - Not really a viable solution imho, making all channels private will cause sharepoint to create a new site each channel. This will cause frustration for the user who want to sync the whole folder structure locally (whole team files), they then need to press sync on each channel.
