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Copy Link is not an option
I wish to share a link to a specific message in Teams chat ... however only options are
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the ability to copy a link to a chat message is extremely handy ... its available on say Slack why not on Teams ? or perhaps its a config setting disabled at my work ?
- It's available for Teams channel messages, but not for chat messages. And it kind of makes sense, as the latter are private by design and the link can only be used by direct participants in the chat (1:1 or group).
We have the exact same need. We often take a chat, rename it and make it a standing conversation, and need to send the link out to someone. I am pretty shocked to hear that we can't do this
MS should get on this simple addition!
- Thanks to the comments below I also realized I was unable to "Copy Link" from a private channel.
This in fact strikes me as even a worse potential violation of privacy, facilitating the copy of private conversations into e-mail for distributions. Copying a link is the most private mechanism, if a user is not in the channel they will be unable to read.
This is one of several significant functional gaps I have encountered transitioning from Slack to Teams, I hope Microsoft will continue to improve Chat functionality. Another huge gap is allowing threaded Chats, not just conversations in Team channels. - It's available for Teams channel messages, but not for chat messages. And it kind of makes sense, as the latter are private by design and the link can only be used by direct participants in the chat (1:1 or group).
- This MS teams feature is broken (as others have stated bellow).
Not having "copy link" prevents me from giving the reference to previous chats. Even if the user was part of the private conversation. All I can say to them is try searching for xyz....
I have over 100 chat channels or conversations to deal with. So giving me a simple way to reference them all should be a given. If it's private just pop an access request screen !- I am inviting three people to a Teams meeting. I want those three people to see the message I sent them in Teams chat (the same three people are in that chat), so I wanted to copy a link to that message to paste into the meeting invite. I get the privacy concern in the answer above, but that's solvable. Only people with access to that chat and that message should be able to successfully open the link. This is not the first time I've hit this, and clearly other users except this functionality too. MS, please consider.
- Slack allows to copy any messages of any channel or chat, private or public. The person that click the link of the message will be able to read the message or not based on the account permission.
Is there any chance to see this implemented in Teams?
Imho is very convenient to be able to refer to any messages, knowing that only the right account will be able to read the message after opening the link. VasilMichev
You said
> It's available for Teams channel messagesNo, it does not. Since monthes, it comes and go, for whatever reason (recurring bug most probably)
Such a pitty and a pain.- Agree ... one day the option is there, and the next it isn't. Definitely a bug.
- This really needs to be added as one or more persons you chat with directly could be in multiple chart groups (ie user1 & user2 in one group, user 1 user 2 & user3 in another) within the CHAT section and not within a TEAM and when you want to let a user know to check in X chat section for something you left them they have to first figure out which of the many chat groups you and they are in to find the text because there is no direct link. If there was only 1 Chat group for each combination of users that would be fine but that's not how TEMAS works so this really needs to be a thing. Access to read what the link references should be based on who is using the link and that would prevent private chart between user1 & uiser2 from being read by user3.
EventHorizon
Please Microsoft, do something with this... We was forced to migrate from Slack to MS Teams and everyday I get frustrated when I need to share a link from a message in a "Private Chat" to my mates.
It's better to don't talk about the Linux "Preview" client app and other topics. From my point of view Slack is really better in all senses, but definetively this topic about sharing the link to private chat messages is the worst issue and the one that drives me to frustration.
Regards
Regards,- If M$ products were chosen because they are good, we would know.
They just have a very effective sales (/lobby?) departement.
Probably they even pay some IT managers here and there to be selected...Chris1325 MS Products at large organisations are typically chosen by upper management who rarely use them like you or I. MS heavily Markets a set of basic features to these people, one of which is price. Since Teams is completely free with a large 365 environment, it doesn't have to be a good product, it simply has to exist.
When management hear buzzwords like "collaboration tools" or "team chat" the first place they go is where they've always gone, Microsoft. Compared with Slack, Teams always wins not because it's a good product, but because for management, free means good, regardless of how much frustration, downtime and inefficiency it causes to end-users.
- Sometimes I even want to share the link to an earlier message to the person inside our same 1:1 chat. Just to help them find sth. we talked about earlier. For me this makes a lot of sense and I use it quite commonly on Slack. If you don’t have the rights to read it, you are being made aware of the fact. As simple as that. Please consider this, Microsoft Teams Team
