Forum Discussion
@mention someone in Chats in order to add one to the conversation
I don't see a way to "mention" people within a MS Teams chat. If I type "@" I don't see list of names. I'd like to be able to mention people that are already added to the chat. Is that possible?
Thanks,
- You can't @ in chat, but you can in a team conversation. I guess I'm in 2 minds as to whether you would want to @ in chat, if this invited them to your chat they would see all that went before and this might not be what you want.
The inconsistency of not being able to \@mention someone in a chat is frustrating. It kinda looks like it's working, because it highlights and emboldens the following word, but it really isn't doing anything. Am I mentioning the guy or not? I have no **bleep** idea? The UI needs work. MS should make it more clear how mentioning is done.
Agree, very not intuitive, MS need to try harder if they want to dethrone Slack
- David Rosenthal
Microsoft
Adding someone to a chat does not actually give them visibility of all the chat history that happened before they were added. This is different than how it works in Channel conversations inside a Team, where you do get prior history when added as a member.
I believe you cannot tag people in Chat right now because all that tagging controls is the firing of notifications, and in Chat all conversation already fires a notification. The tagging mechanism is not used to add people to any sort of permissions or membership currently.
