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Brass Contributor

Jun 18, 2019

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Delay Send Feature on Teams Posts

Would anyone in this forum find it useful to be able to type a message in Teams (either 1:1 chat or a team thread), hit enter, and have that message not sent until the recipient's status is available...

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ChristianJBergstrom
Nov 10, 2021
On it's way!

Read more here https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/microsoft-ignite-fall-2021-innovations-coming-to-microsoft-teams/ba-p/2824127

The roadmap id https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88281

VasilMichev

MVP

Jun 19, 2019

On the other hand, considering how reliable presence is in Teams currently, something like this might create even more problems :)

And it kinda goes against the whole idea of a "high-velocity" chat client. If people don't want to be disturbed, they can simply set the corresponding status. With the amount of notifications being generated, anyone that wants to see a message will do so, and for the ones that don't care there's nothing you can do anyway.

adam deltinger

MVP

Jun 19, 2019

I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, but it may hit adoption too! Many people don’t use Teams as often as it would benefit them, meaning they would probably not be available as often, hence not getting any messages! This is the opposite of what they need! Of course this could be optional but it’s something to keep in mind!
Also if they’ve missed a message during a meeting or something they should get a mail too! I believe the DnD with the important contacts handles this scenario pretty well..
Just my take on it..

Adam

behindthe8ball
Copper Contributor
Dec 06, 2019
I would find having this option extremely useful or have the option to send the message at certain time. Im in Boston and most of colleagues are in Genoa Italy...which is usually a 6 hour time difference. I don't want them to look at a non critical post 8 pm on a friday CET but I also don't want to forget to give someone a heads-ups first thing Monday. adam deltinger
- ksheehy
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 25, 2021
  I want to mirror this sentiment - I would also like to simply send it at a delayed time accounting for time zone differences.
- adam deltinger
  MVP
  Dec 06, 2019
  I suggest putting this on uservoice
  https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/
  
  Regarding monday morning reminders, you can set up a scheduled message with power automate (flow) and the teams connector
  - martziano
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 11, 2020
    adam deltinger the problem with Flow is that it is only for automation of processes that are going to happen for a given/known period of time, the feature in question here is for sporadic reminders or scheduled messages that will happen only once. If Flow had the no-repeat function, that will do it. But sadly, Flow is too much of a hassle for this simple task. Something in line with a command perhaps should suffice.