Apr 04 2018 10:09 PM - edited Apr 04 2018 10:24 PM
Great to see you can now add non-members of a Team to a channel meeting by adding their email address in the channel meeting invite, or sending them the "copy join info" link once a channel meeting has started.
Is there a similar feature in the works for the conversations feed?
Use Case >> I'm having a channel conversation about a new Marketing Strategy which has brought up a technology question, so we wish to ask an IT expert a question to help us out. This IT expert is not a member of our Team (and we don't want them to be, and neither do they). So all we want to do is @mention them into this one conversation (they won't see anything in the channel, except this one conversation)
You can do this in Yammer, as Yammer allows you to participate in groups you have not joined.
...but at the moment in Teams, I have to switch to another tool to ask that IT person a question - which is quite a counter behaviour to one of the pillars of Teams ie. the "Hub"
Apr 05 2018 12:29 AM
It's not currently possible, and it's annoying indeed. The closest you can get is use the "copy link" functionality, but that will only work if the user has access to the Team. There are however few UserVoice items on this already, for example: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/32535259--mention-like-yammer
Apr 05 2018 12:37 AM
Apr 05 2018 08:09 AM
Jun 04 2018 06:18 PM
Look like this is not happening...I wonder if it will happen another way eg @mentioning to Yammer within a Teams conversation
Feb 03 2020 01:43 PM
Extremely disappointed to see this declined. Being able to "pull-in" a non-team member to the conversation seems like essential functionality. I would be satisfied if we could have a conversation that simultaneously exists in multiple channels and you could pull-in that channel through mentions. This would keep the conversation in a single stream in teams, where it is accessible to all relevant parties. Jumping out of the team chat to use direct chat splits the conversation and people have to cut and paste or relay info back and forth. Similar issues happen with Cross-posting, which is only available in the OP and then not even when editing.