Forum Discussion
Delay Send Feature on Teams Posts
Would anyone in this forum find it useful to be able to type a message in Teams (either 1:1 chat or a team thread), hit enter, and have that message not sent until the recipient's status is available? Ideally, this would be an option for which we could set a default (either on or off) and then toggle it for an individual message with a keyboard shortcut depending upon the message's urgency. Hopefully, it would be handled at the cloud level (not the local level like in Outlook) so that it is not dependent on the sender's computer being awake when the recipient's status becomes available.
There is an idea posted for this in a UserVoice forum, but it does not have many votes yet.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18874141-time-delay-post
In my own organization, the people I most frequently need to ping spend much time in meetings or on client calls that I would rather not interrupt, but it hinders my productivity too much to keep checking on when they will be available. If I send a message during their meeting anyway, there is too great a chance they will miss it. If anyone else would find this useful, can you please make your voice heard?
On the other hand, considering how reliable presence is in Teams currently, something like this might create even more problems :)
And it kinda goes against the whole idea of a "high-velocity" chat client. If people don't want to be disturbed, they can simply set the corresponding status. With the amount of notifications being generated, anyone that wants to see a message will do so, and for the ones that don't care there's nothing you can do anyway.
- I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, but it may hit adoption too! Many people don’t use Teams as often as it would benefit them, meaning they would probably not be available as often, hence not getting any messages! This is the opposite of what they need! Of course this could be optional but it’s something to keep in mind!
Also if they’ve missed a message during a meeting or something they should get a mail too! I believe the DnD with the important contacts handles this scenario pretty well..
Just my take on it..
AdamI would find having this option extremely useful or have the option to send the message at certain time. Im in Boston and most of colleagues are in Genoa Italy...which is usually a 6 hour time difference. I don't want them to look at a non critical post 8 pm on a friday CET but I also don't want to forget to give someone a heads-ups first thing Monday. adam deltinger
- Hi!
I think this is a cool idea. I have voted on it and also put it up on Twitter to pull some more people in to vote on it. Would be great to see it implemented - as an optional feature at least.
Best, Chris - good Idea. Additionally a general delayed post by time or date would be helpful as well. So that daily posts can be set up in advance.
- I went googling for this exact feature. Fully agree.
uridoMicrosoft
This feature would be especially useful across timezones of different countriesI wish they would just listen to the community and work on this feature....
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18874141-time-delay-postI think this is a great idea. Having this option available will allow answering messages from end-users manageable. Researching or waiting on answers from other colleagues can take time and often happen after the 8-5 pm shift. Many people are now working remotely and time zones play another factor when responding to team messages. Many times findings or answers to questions happen after 5pm For those employees working late hours, having the delay send option will help tremendously.
- The possibility to simply delay sending would be welcome. I see issues with making it depend on recipient status, though it would be good as an option. I work evenings though, and hate sending pings on off-work hours.
