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New Teams - Set most recent app view as default
Before I updated to the new Microsoft Teams, I always saw the calendar view by default when I opened the Teams app. Based on some quick testing with the old Teams, it appears that it was simply opening whatever app I had been viewing last.
On the new Teams, it always opens to the Chat app by default, which is not very useful for me. Is there a way to either make the view default to the most recently used app on the new Teams, or set a specific app (in my case, Calendar) as the default?
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Workaround:
Create a Windows shortcut and use the command line arguments for MsTeams to target the desired module.
1) New > Shortcut
2) Type the location of the itemmsteams:/l/[TARGET]3) Valid targets can be Calendar, Channel, Entity, Meetup-Join, Chat-Join, and probably others yet to be discovered
msteams:/l/calendarmsteams:/l/channel/[CHANNEL ID]msteams:/l/entity/[ID of another target such as a Plan]
To get a Microsoft Teams channel ID from the app, navigate to the desired channel, click the three dots (...) next to the channel name, and select "Get link to channel" from the menu. A popup will appear containing a link; copy this link. The channel ID is the string of characters that appears in the URL immediately after /channel/ and before the next slash. For example, in the URL https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19:0b0d1aae685345b28bcc9dda9010cc94@thread.skype/Support%20Channel?groupId=..., the channel ID is 19:0b0d1aae685345b28bcc9dda9010cc94@thread.skype.When copying the link, the channel ID may appear with URL encoding (e.g., 19%3a...%40thread.skype). If you need to use the ID in APIs or other systems, replace %3a with : and %40 with @. This method works in both the Microsoft Teams desktop application and the web version at https://teams.microsoft.com/
UPDATE:
I also discovered that by copying the link to a Planner "Plan", it's also possible to launch Teams directly to open that plan. This uses the "entity" target. I haven't experimented extensively but "entity" might also work to target other things. Open a Planner tab or the Planner App (within Teams), choose "Copy Link to Plan", then take the part of the URL that begins with "entity/" and put that as the launch target for msteams:/l/
NOTE:
"msteams:/l/" (with the target after the second slash) is the complete command. It is not necessary to locate teams.exe or provide a path to the executable. "msteams:" is a native shell command that invokes the program.
I don't care about meetup-join or chat-join, but you can read about it here:
https://ananthasharma.medium.com/how-to-open-ms-teams-meeting-from-command-line-terminal-ea501f6dd6caThank you! This workaround is really helpful.
I haven't been able to find a solution for this and it really bothers me. Microsoft is trying to force people to use Teams as a chat app. I'm tired of big tech trying to force behavior. They can easily fix this. They just won't do it because it benefits them to leave it like it is. I'm sure they use the chat data for marketing, to seed A.I. or something.
When you say "it because it benefits them to leave it like it is" - I don't even understand the benefit from Microsoft's perspective. What are they gaining from annoying the users like this? It makes no sense to me.
First off, the "Chat" module of this software kind of blows. It's not great. It's probably the weakest feature of the whole suite, in my opinion. Also... the program is called Microsoft TEAMS... not Microsoft CHAT. It's really bizarre to me that there seems to be this direction of development to deprioritize and apparently maybe eliminate the "Teams" feature of Microsoft Teams? Which is what everybody loves and what made it popular in the first place? Again, I'm baffled. If anybody can explain Microsoft's thought process on this (steelman it for me, sincerely) I would love to hear it.
I'll just add one more tiny voice to the chorus of the reasonable: Please allow the "starting app" of Microsoft Teams to default to "Last Used" and/or make this a configurable option in the Settings on a per user (ideal) or admin (minimum viable) level. PLEASE! Thank you. 😊I can only speculate, but my assumption is that they use the chat data for marketing purposes, to seed A.I., or something similar. But Teams used to have this feature and then they deliberately removed it. Now they say it's "not feasible" to add it, which makes no sense. As a programmer I know how easy it is to save and set a preference like this for users.
On a side note I have found a workaround. I found that there are some command line options for Teams, and I was able to create a desktop shortcut with the following command line arguments which opens Teams to the Calendar tab:
msteams:/l/calendar
I hope this helps. Hopefully they won't cripple this functionality too.
I'm also having the same problem and haven't been able to find any solutions for it.
Has anyone figured anything out? Any way to configure the default behavior of which app opens by default on a per-user, per-team, or per-org basis?
This behavior is really weird and annoying and it seems very strange that there's no apparent setting to change it on the "New" Teams.
To be clear, the annoying behavior I'm referring to is that Teams now always opens to the "Chat" app by default, when it would seem obvious that most or many users would want it to open to "Last Used", or at least have the choice as a configurable option.
KitPaulson- I *REALLY* hope they do this, it is the entire reason I & my organization are planning to remain on Teams Classic for the foreseeable future
- One thing that confuses me is I work for multiple clients and each installation has different defaults. Why? I can't find the settings in Teams admin to change it, why would they be different between clients? My employer's Teams defaults to Chat when it loads, and one of my clients defaults to Teams... in the old teams that wasn't a problem because I had teams open in two different windows and they only initialized once. With new Teams when you switch accounts they initialize repeatedly and I have to keep switching from the blank Teams tab to the Chat tab.
- I also would love to see them add a "default" startup page, as I do not use "Chat" either.
I tried to find the feedback page for teams, and found this link, but it says to click "Help" in the lower left corner of the settings page, but I don't have that option. (maybe I'm missing it??)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/give-feedback-in-microsoft-teams-c0fb6297-22af-4db5-b19b-69e0a6720927
I'm going to use the "Feedback Hub" app that is in the start menu to give feedback/suggestion. Not sure if that will help....
