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Microsoft Loop AMA
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Tuesday, Jan 17, 2023, 09:00 AM PSTEvent details
We are excited to announce a Microsoft Loop AMA on Tuesday, January 17th at 9:00 AM Pacific time!
Join us as our experts discuss how teams can think, plan, and create together with Microsoft Loop! Learn more about the value of Loop components, available now in Teams chat and Outlook, and discuss vision for the Loop app. The team is excited for any questions and feedback you may have.
Catch up on the team's news from Ignite 2022 in their blog post here: Microsoft Loop at Ignite 2022
An AMA is a live text-based online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with Microsoft product experts who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback.
Feel free to post your questions about Microsoft Loop components and Loop app vision now through the end of the live event in the Comment on this event... box below; however, questions will not be answered until the live event.
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Updated Jan 17, 2023
- Meenah_KhosrawFormer Employee
Thanks for joining us today for a Microsoft Loop AMA! We appreciate your questions and feedback—and look forward to continuing the discussion on the Microsoft 365 community!
Note: For those who asked a question, and it wasn't answered during the live event, the product team will be working over the next few days to continue answering them.
- aaBrass ContributorThanks for the AMA. Are there any recordings of the live event? The event didn't work well with my current time zone. Very excited to know more about Loop.
- reece-rCopper ContributorFrom reading the thread it seems this was a text-based AMA and with no video.
- reece-rCopper Contributor
Thank you for the AMA 🙂
- MaryHillSHUBrass ContributorThank you, Microsoft Peeps, for all your answers!
- AndrewH83Copper ContributorThis is a question that having the full app may answer and I hope that I explain this question well. The "Beauty" of Loop is that users should be able to work on the component from any of the supported apps, so currently, that's just outlook and teams. So for example if my team was working on a component in the Loop app, but I wanted to work on it from a word document for example, how would that work? Can I just open and collaborate on an already existing component while in a different application that it was created in?
- Hi Andrew. Expanding on Jon’s reply, I expect you will be able to copy a link to a Loop component or page and paste it into any of the Loop-aware applications. E.g. You could create a Loop page for ideas for a document, copy the link to the page, paste it into a Word Online document.
- Jon Kaufthal
Microsoft
Absolutely! All instances of the component regardless of location are live and in sync with each other and auto-update with each change made/character typed.
- Stefan1Brass ContributorCurrently when a Loop component is created on OneDrive I can manually move it to a SharePoint site for Teams team but unfortunaltely I can't add the loop component then into a chat or channel conversation. Pasting the link to the component works but opens in a new window. I guess this will be smoothly integrated when saving to SharePoint is implemented.
- Constance Gervais
Microsoft
After moving the file to a SharePoint site, try opening it in a new window. From the full screen view on Office.com click the share button. That new link should become a component in Teams chat. Let us know if that doesn't work! After a moving the component, to get a link that will become a component it must be generated from the full screen view in Office.com. Getting a share link from any list view in SharePoint or OneDrive will result in only a link.
- damian2602Copper ContributorWill loop components work when collaborating with cross-tenant-synced users (Roadmap ID 109568)?
- Constance Gervais
Microsoft
Hi Damian, Shane responded to a similar question earlier: link
- Stefan1Brass ContributorIs a "read-only" flag intended somehow as protection that not something get's messed-up / deleted unintendedly? Had this already with my own Loop components that I added something by accident.
- Shane Chism
Microsoft
Yes! This is one of those places where we had a thought and were proved wrong in testing 🙂. Initially we thought "Loop components are designed to be collaborative, live, updated things --- marking them read-only is the opposite of that, so why would we support it?". Well, turns out, there's a finalization step to collaboration. You and your team do great work, and then you're ready to share it (like in a broad status e-mail to many stakeholders).
That exact scenario is one our team almost immediately started doing as we rolled out the Loop components and Loop app internally, and it made it very clear we needed to have some kind of read-only metaphor.
We do support the ability to do this with Loop components today via SharePoint UI, however we absolutely aim to support this from Loop UI surfaces in the near future.
- AlexH980Steel ContributorWill loop have a proper "Activity History" built into the app? Things can change quickly in a Loop component and having a DETAILED activity history will be needed.
- Shane Chism
Microsoft
Hey Alex! Worry not! We actually will have activity history both available for Loop components and Loop pages.
Version history is available today for Loop components -- you can click the title of the component, and then when it opens in Office.com clicking the title will allow you to view the backing OneDrive/SharePoint file, which will also give you access to version history.
We also offer attribution for Loop components and Loop pages, which will let you see who made a given change and when to a specific piece of text/content on the page.
We are building a richer version of this into the Loop app so that you don't need to rely on the SharePoint experience --- nothing to announce on those details just yet, but we absolutely have it in plan.
We feel like things like version history are essential to creating a culture of trust on your team. I know I would also freak out editing a team member's content if I felt like they wouldn't be able to recover their thoughts if they didn't like my changes.
- Great answer and thanks for confirming this Shane. Today, attribution is supported in text-based blocks. Will it be supported for checklists and other types of Loop blocks?
- MaryHillSHUBrass Contributor
I heard an answer from Microsoft to a question very similar to this , and basically it was "no, version history won't be a feature of a loop component precisely as it is designed to change" or words to that effect.
- AlexH980Steel ContributorThat's terrible news. That same argument from MS can be made to justify WHY activity history is needed. I'm not even asking for full version history like we get with other Office documents. Just a log of the who, what and when would be sufficient for me.
- BenSteginkSteel Contributor
Will the task lists in Loop have integration into To Do and/or Planner? The last thing I feel like we need is one more disconnect location to store tasks...it would be nice to start seeing more integration between them all to get a complete picture of all tasks assigned to me.
- Plans have been shared about the new meeting notes feature in invites and Teams meetings. It is been discussed as a OneNote feature, adding meeting notes to an invite. It will have an Agenda, meeting notes and follow-up task list. You might recall that this was initially shared as a feature powered by Loop. In recent announcements about this feature, it still appears to be powered by Loop. Regarding the tasks, Microsoft have said the Loop powered task list will integrate with Planner, and from there you could surface assigned tasks in ToDo. But there hasn’t been much more detail shared about how it will integrate with Planner.
- BenSteginkSteel ContributorThanks darrellaas, I hadn't seen the announcements around that follow-up task list + Loop and Loop Tasks Lists + To Do...not sure how I missed those 🙂
- AlexH980Steel ContributorThis is important. The current "Tasks" component is OK but having To Do and Planner tasks in Loop will be helpful. Especially for Planner..
- BobbiStockwellCopper ContributorHi, when will we be able to export Loop components as a file type; pdf, csv, etc. (a consumable format)? We cannot use Loop within our agency because we cannot export a Loop file when our Records Director needs to comply with a public records request.
- Shane Chism
Microsoft
Export of Loop components via eDiscovery is something that we're actively working on (and may even have rolled out in some fashion -- I don't personally have the latest on that other than the work was mostly complete and actively being validated). eDiscovery mechanisms do allow export of this content in various file types, and the primary goal of this is to comply with exactly the types of situations you describe!
- AlexH980Steel ContributorCan we expect to see a better approach to commenting in Loop pages than the current "comment" loop component? Bring modern comments from Word and Excel into loop and I'll be happy.
- Shane Chism
Microsoft
As usual, Darrell's got you covered! 🙂 Commenting is an incredibly important part of modern collaboration, and we've added not only similar types of threaded comments that you would expect from productivity apps you're familiar with, but we've also added in some new, more modern ways to expressing your thoughts and reactions to content in even lighter weight ways. We can't wait for you to try these out and give us feedback on what you think! - That is coming. You see hints of this in the promo videos of the Loop app. I expect comments for individual components will be the same as for the Loop pages in the promo videos.
- AlexH980Steel Contributor
Will Loop pages support custom tables, similar to how Notion does it today? Current loop tables are not very useful as-is.
Things I would like to see improved with loop tables:
- custom views (gannt, calendar, etc.)
- full page width support
- custom sorting
- custom field types
- Matt_Anderson
Microsoft
We really appreciate the feedback and are always eager to learn how we can improve the value of Loop. The team is working hard on more dynamic tables to meet the needs of you and your team, and we'll continue incorporating your feedback into future table features.