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Copy a Microsoft Teams channel chat to another Microsoft Teams channel conversation
Avinash_Damera the process is going to be a chore, but you can use multi-channel posts as a workaround: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cross-post-a-channel-conversation-in-teams-9c1252a3-67ef-498e-a7c1-dd7147b3d295
Just edit any post you need to copy and include the target channel, then remove the original one.
Avinash_Damera the process is going to be a chore, but you can use multi-channel posts as a workaround: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cross-post-a-channel-conversation-in-teams-9c1252a3-67ef-498e-a7c1-dd7147b3d295
Just edit any post you need to copy and include the target channel, then remove the original one.
CMD_KEEN wrote:... you can use multi-channel posts as a workaround: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cross-post-a-channel-conversation-in-teams-9c1252a3-67ef-498e-a7c1-dd7147b3d295
Just edit any post you need to copy and include the target channel, then remove the original one.
I just ran into an unexpected problem with this approach. The https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cross-post-a-channel-conversation-in-teams-9c1252a3-67ef-498e-a7c1-dd7147b3d295 states that when editing a cross-post message that "you can remove channels from the list" - but fails to say that it is not possible to remove it from the original channel in which the message was posted.
The screen-shot below shows that I can add new channels and remove the message from the "Internal IT" private channel and/or the non-private "Test channel", but I cannot remove it from the "General" channel.
This limitation seems to make it impossible to actually move a message from one place to another.
Any ideas?
RichardBradley Hi Richard, yeah it seems you'll first need to share the post with (an)other channel(s) before it can be deleted from the source channel.
Hope this helps:CMD_KEEN - thanks. I had already posted it in another channel and saved it. The problem was I needed to switch to the other channel first and edit it from there in order to remove the post from the original channel.
RichardBradley - I don't think it's necessary to switch channels, in my example I've shared and then deleted the post, all from the source channel.
Edit: Maybe you tried to remove the post from the source channel by doing an edit and then trying to remove the channel from the multiple channels listed? (hope that makes sense.) But you could do a delete on the post instead and it will offer you if you want to remove it from all channels it's been posted in or only the current one.
- I've found what I was doing wrong!!!
If I edit the message from one of the other channels then I can remove it from the "General" channel.
The above approach works - I just need to remember that I must be editing the message in a channel that needs to keep it so that I can drop it from the other(s).