Oct 28 2020 05:47 AM
how to add multiple users in teams chat in one go it doesnt accept any semicolon nor comma. I want to add bulk users in chat and start the chat
Oct 28 2020 06:00 AM
@alitaqvi Hello Ali,
On the left side panel, right click on the CHAT and select NEW CHAT from the drop down or press CTRL + N to start a new chat.
In the TO: field across the top, enter each person or group, no commas or semi colons required.
Then click on the SEND button.
Oct 29 2020 01:39 PM
Oct 29 2020 02:55 PM
@alitaqvi Here are two options for you:
Oct 29 2020 03:10 PM
Solution@alitaqvi You can start a group chat with multiple users if you are typing their names and select each one as they are suggested. I'm going to guess your trying to copy/paste some list into chat?
Try creating a url link that follows the deep link format, it will accept multiple users as a comma separated list of upns
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=<user1>,<user2>,...&topicName=<chat name>&message=<precanned text>
Click the link and you'll get a group chat
Nov 09 2020 06:17 AM
Dec 09 2020 01:44 AM
Mar 29 2021 07:57 AM
"On the left side panel, right click on the CHAT and select NEW CHAT from the drop down or press CTRL + N to start a new chat.
In the TO: field across the top, enter each person or group, no commas or semi colons required.
Then click on the SEND button."
Hi this does not work as described. Soon as I enter one person, it creates the chat to a single person and I am unable to add a second person. To clarify, I am attempting to add external users to a chat. Regardless, MS has always used a semicolon across all their software to add recipients. These external users are added in teams contacts, and also I entered them in a group. However entering the group, as the dialog requests, does not work either.
After over an hour messing with it, I just texted the people till I can figure it out. It should not be this difficult. Why Teams cannot access my Outlook contacts as it does my calendar is beyond me also. Re-entering contacts is a waste of everyone's time.
Apr 21 2021 05:36 PM
VishwasTayade@ITAVA2021 : Faced same issue as above. I had to copy & paste the id's individually & its consuming lot of time. Maybe allowing comma or semi colon separated to update multiple addresses would be MUCH BETTER.
May 28 2021 05:28 AM - edited May 28 2021 05:30 AM
Here is a CodePen do make this link automatically from a list of email addresses like you might get from an Outlook group: https://codepen.io/cjbarth/full/ZEeJBvN
All you have to do is type in the name of the Teams group you want, and paste in the list of email addresses (a Regex will extract all the email addresses, so don't worry about format), and you'll see a link you can click on to automatically create a Teams group.
Jul 14 2021 05:43 PM - edited Jul 14 2021 05:44 PM
If you are using outlook and if you have an email that includes the required members - open the email and select "Reply All with IM".
Jul 15 2021 07:52 AM
@VipsINDI don't see such a button, nor have I heard of it. How did you get it enabled? I have Teams installed and Outlook installed, so I would expect it would just be there.
Jul 15 2021 09:12 AM
- Open an existing received / sent email
- Click on Message
- On the Messages options at the end click on (3 dots which I believe it's also called hamburger icon) as below
- It will show the following menu options:
Oct 15 2021 05:12 AM
Oct 15 2021 05:37 AM
@VipsINDThis is a great feature, thanks for pointing it out! Sadly it doesn't work on Office 2019 or if you don't have Outlook on your machine (Linux). This really should be a feature in Teams itself.
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