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Changing Notification Settings for all users on a Team
No, only the users themselves can modify their notification settings, you cannot control this on their behalf.
No, only the users themselves can modify their notification settings, you cannot control this on their behalf.
No way at all? I'm sad to hear that. It would be okay if the default was that everyone receives notifications for all replies in a channel, but this is not the case... which is a problem for us.
I will let my team know.
Thank you for telling me~
- Marty Smith
Microsoft
Reylin4 How about just putting an @Mention of the Channel Name in each message. Everyone would get that, right?
- If every user has to add a step (that people always forget) to every single post they make, that is the definition of what defaults are for. Why be in the channel in the first place if you don't want to receive notifications?
Marty Smith this sounds great if all members are notified.
- I haven't tested that but definitely could. I mean I'm not overly concerned though, my thought is that certain channels will be almost mandatory, like process ones, so employees will be informed they need to either turn on notifications, or make a point of checking it frequently. If a process change is posted and they have notifications left off, and didn't go in and check, then that's on them I guess. But if @ mentioning the channel name does notify everyone, even with notifications off then that would be a good idea for really important messages!
psychobunny83 I have just tested @ team name, and all members in the team received notification, including those with notifications turned off. Good work around, however would be better if we can get the default setup to be notifications on, with user having option to turn off.
Reylin4 I agree with you and noticed the same thing. We just switched to Office 365 from G Suite and I'm planning training for my team and thought it was odd that notifications are OFF by default as most users aren't going to go through 20 channels just to turn them all on. Came across this post by searching how to force them on with no luck. Weird that there's no way to do this or at least have them ON by default. I thought sure it would be the other way around, TOO many notifications that you want to turn off vs trying to turn ones on!
