Forum Discussion
Mention everyone in a Teams Chat without having to @mention individually
rebeccaheathcote1690 - Currently the option to mention all in the list of members when you do a mention in chat is not available. Could you please help to raise it on Microsoft uservoice.
rebeccaheathcote1690 Hey Rebecca - my read of the usage philosophy implicit in Teams is that a chat in the direct message sense is designed around it being with one or a few people; when there is a chat with a large number of people, it is more typically either a) as a persistent chat within a channel (in which case you can either use tags to pick out subgroups or @channel to carpetbomb the channel or b) related to a meeting, in which case the chat (at least initially, though it may spill over) is time-limited and thus attendees are seeing in-meeting notifications appear on the top ribbon of the meeting. As a fellow Teams user, I'd be interested to hear your specific use-case to understand if there may be a more suitable way of doing what you're trying to do but designed elsewhere into Teams.
" my read of the usage philosophy implicit in Teams is that a chat in the direct message sense is designed around it being with one or a few people"
My read is that it's functionality that's missing.
DanXC My read of your read is that you are advocating reengineering a Phillips head screwdriver to turn flathead screws, instead of using the flathead screwdriver that is already in the toolbox.
You can now mention everyone in a group chat using @everyone.
Update : Please note that this feature is not available in public rings yet.
do we know when this will be generally available? Meghana-MSFT
