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Changing Channel from private
- 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.
jcgonzalezmartin It is idiotic to not have the option of changing a channel you built in private to get it to the way you want it before you made it public to the team you made it in.
Thanks for the info. I have the same issue. That's kind of annoying that I can't make my channels public.
- WTF?!?
Got to love the afterthoughts at MS 🙂
- 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.Hi, is that definitely correct about the private *channels* within a Group's Team chat, that it creates a whole separate site collection?
My understanding was that it creates a folder within that Group's SharePoint folders, just as it does when creating any channel, just protected and only accessible only by those invited users. That's how it seems to present it.
If so, this has implications in terms of internal governance. For reference, we have turned off the functionality that allows all staff to create Groups, but they can still create channels (or at least, the admins for those Groups can).
Thanks!- Exactly, it's an internal governance nightmare. Why my recommendation at our workplace is to block the option to create these (as we have with Groups without authorisation and clear ownership).
- 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?- 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.
jcgonzalezmartin This is interesting news as of now 🙂
