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Copy Link is not an option
I wish to share a link to a specific message in Teams chat ... however only options are
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the ability to copy a link to a chat message is extremely handy ... its available on say Slack why not on Teams ? or perhaps its a config setting disabled at my work ?
- It's available for Teams channel messages, but not for chat messages. And it kind of makes sense, as the latter are private by design and the link can only be used by direct participants in the chat (1:1 or group).
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- Sometimes I even want to share the link to an earlier message to the person inside our same 1:1 chat. Just to help them find sth. we talked about earlier. For me this makes a lot of sense and I use it quite commonly on Slack. If you don’t have the rights to read it, you are being made aware of the fact. As simple as that. Please consider this, Microsoft Teams Team
EventHorizon
Please Microsoft, do something with this... We was forced to migrate from Slack to MS Teams and everyday I get frustrated when I need to share a link from a message in a "Private Chat" to my mates.
It's better to don't talk about the Linux "Preview" client app and other topics. From my point of view Slack is really better in all senses, but definetively this topic about sharing the link to private chat messages is the worst issue and the one that drives me to frustration.
Regards
Regards,- If M$ products were chosen because they are good, we would know.
They just have a very effective sales (/lobby?) departement.
Probably they even pay some IT managers here and there to be selected...Chris1325 MS Products at large organisations are typically chosen by upper management who rarely use them like you or I. MS heavily Markets a set of basic features to these people, one of which is price. Since Teams is completely free with a large 365 environment, it doesn't have to be a good product, it simply has to exist.
When management hear buzzwords like "collaboration tools" or "team chat" the first place they go is where they've always gone, Microsoft. Compared with Slack, Teams always wins not because it's a good product, but because for management, free means good, regardless of how much frustration, downtime and inefficiency it causes to end-users.
We have the exact same need. We often take a chat, rename it and make it a standing conversation, and need to send the link out to someone. I am pretty shocked to hear that we can't do this
MS should get on this simple addition!
- Thanks to the comments below I also realized I was unable to "Copy Link" from a private channel.
This in fact strikes me as even a worse potential violation of privacy, facilitating the copy of private conversations into e-mail for distributions. Copying a link is the most private mechanism, if a user is not in the channel they will be unable to read.
This is one of several significant functional gaps I have encountered transitioning from Slack to Teams, I hope Microsoft will continue to improve Chat functionality. Another huge gap is allowing threaded Chats, not just conversations in Team channels. - This really needs to be added as one or more persons you chat with directly could be in multiple chart groups (ie user1 & user2 in one group, user 1 user 2 & user3 in another) within the CHAT section and not within a TEAM and when you want to let a user know to check in X chat section for something you left them they have to first figure out which of the many chat groups you and they are in to find the text because there is no direct link. If there was only 1 Chat group for each combination of users that would be fine but that's not how TEMAS works so this really needs to be a thing. Access to read what the link references should be based on who is using the link and that would prevent private chart between user1 & uiser2 from being read by user3.
- It's available for Teams channel messages, but not for chat messages. And it kind of makes sense, as the latter are private by design and the link can only be used by direct participants in the chat (1:1 or group).
VasilMichev wrote:
It's available for Teams channel messages, but not for chat messages. And it kind of makes sense, as the latter are private by design and the link can only be used by direct participants in the chat (1:1 or group).This definitely does NOT make sense.
- I often need to reference messages for later action myself or to others who were part of the chat.
- Such referencing is not necessarily in the MS universe and I therefore need a link.
- If someone outside the chat does click the link, what's the problem? Teams will block their access anyway and so no harm done.
I do this constantly in Slack, but is a serious omission from Teams. No wonder for many of my colleagues, using Teams instead of Slack (we use both) for chat is a grudge choice.
Have you ever tried to find an important message somewhere in all the chats you have in Teams??!!!
You can save messages, but all you're doing then is reducing the problem slightly depending on how many messages you save - in my case it would need to be many.
- "private by design" --> that's the problem. The chats should not be private by design. That's the mistake. Who says all chats are private? MS should not dictate how users use the tool. Instead, the tool should be designed based on how users communicate.
MS should look at Slack. Slack has the perfect design for this scenario.
If there's anyone listening, the bottom line is: Links to messages in chats are a must. If you need help figuring out the privacy, look at Slack... or just contact me and I'll be happy to help.
Thank youI will add my voice in support of this need.
I frequently need to capture the link to a specific message in a chat as context for an action that I need to take, or as a reference for a project I am working on. I have as many as 200 projects (using the GTD definition of "project" as "an outcome requiring more than one action to realize") in flight at any given time, and conversations coming at me from every direction - some relevant, many not, some invited, many ad hoc, etc.
Three days from now, I will have an inkling that someone gave me pertinent info about a project (and likely also attached a file or included a table, etc.), I just won't remember exactly when it happened, and whether the person did so as part of one chat group or another, or if it was a direct message just to me.
What's odd is that I can get the URL for a private chat message through an integrated App. I have the Todoist integration added, and I can make a Todoist task out of a chat message. The integrated App adds the task to Todoist with the URL to the chat.I can also do the same thing to OneNote with the OneNote integrated App in Teams.
I usually just do that, and then go to Todoist or OneNote to get the URL so I can copy it into my project references, but then have to clean up by deleting the task or the OneNote note.
If I can get the URL through one of those means, why can I not just copy it to the clipboard from Teams? It's clearly useful, and clearly possible...
VasilMichev
You said
> It's available for Teams channel messagesNo, it does not. Since monthes, it comes and go, for whatever reason (recurring bug most probably)
Such a pitty and a pain.- Agree ... one day the option is there, and the next it isn't. Definitely a bug.
