Moving posts from one channel/Team to another?

Anonymous
2020-07-16T13:39:40+00:00

Having rushed into setting things up on Teams due to COVID-19, we now find that we would like to rearrange our teams and use channels more.  Is there an easy way to move content (posts and files) from one team to another, please?

Many thanks

Carol

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-12-21T20:26:18+00:00

    Ditto here... a feature really needed to effectively groom an evolving Team Community.

    While I'm dreaming...

    It would also be nice if it were possible to copy as set of Team Chat messages into a channel as a conversation. I can't count the number of times a thread is started in a chat conversation that really should have initiated in a Team Channel. Just like moving a conversation posted in the wrong channel to a new channel... it would be useful for Team Chats as well.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-12-23T17:05:14+00:00

    I have been able to use the Copy feature to put a link in the correct Channel pointing to the original Posting on the wrong Channel.

    It works but is not what I needed it to do.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-03-07T13:36:33+00:00

    As always one opens a year old thread and request for support/feature only to once again realize that it is not possible and no development has happened :-/

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-08T15:23:46+00:00

    I totally get that feeling. It's frustrating.

    I work for an education provider and sometimes no matter how many times you tell staff how to use the channels you still get people posting in the wrong places. For a company as big as ours this leads to problems with learners finding information. And it happens every week.

    The simple ability for a team owner to be able to click a button named 'move to channel' and then choose the correct channel to drop the post into would be life changing for teachers/learners/admin at my place of work. Please Microsoft make this simple thing a reality!!??

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-03-17T21:44:28+00:00

    Careful! I just posted in the wrong channel, so I tried moving the post using the method below. But what happened is that my original post was deleted from the thread in Teams, and the replies did not move over.

    1. Selected the three dots menu next to the post
    2. Clicked "Edit"
    3. Clicked "Post in multiple channels"
    4. Added the channel where I wanted to move the post to.
    5. Tried deleting the current channel, but this failed because it was listed as the "Source" channel.
    6. Switched over to the new, destination channel for the post.
    7. Clicked the three dots menu next to the post and "Edit."
    8. Deleted the source channel from here.

    As I said, the post was deleted from the original thread, and the replies did not move. So I moved it back but couldn't neatly link the posts together again.

    So, in case you considered trying that approach, it does not work. Hoping for a fix from Microsoft.

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