It’s been close to 10 months since Microsoft has introduced Teams in an effort to help their customers improve their collaboration within the workspace. Through these months, Microsoft has been slowly improving Teams through their observations and user feedback. One example of this was the integration of third party applications such as Trello and SurveyMonkey. Even now they are still updating Teams, recently they have released a new update in which they have integrated exciting new features which will surely help your company’s collaboration efforts!
New ways to utilize your apps in Teams
Include information from an app in a conversation
Be able to discuss content from a different app directly in Teams with the latest update. Just like putting an emoji or GIF in the chat, you’ll be able to search and post integrated app information into chat and channels. Be able search for a specific task in Trello, a work item in Wrike, or even a weather forcast, and even integrate them it into an interactive card.
Access a personal view of your apps
With the update, you can now easily access apps you frequently use and even see all items on those apps such as tasks in planner, issues in Jira Cloud and even conveniently find items you recently used such notebooks from OneNote. This is made possible due to the addition of the personal apps space. In addition, you can also find a new app in this space called Who, a new app powered by Microsoft Graph, which enables you to search for people in your organization by name or topic.
Find apps for Teams in the new Store
To make discovering and finding apps simpler in Teams by allowing users to search for apps by name, category, and integration type (like bots, tabs, connectors) in their new store.
Command apps, take quick actions, and search—all from the command box
Command apps from the command box
In the latest patch, Microsoft has added the function to query or command an app from the command box. You are now able to search information in an app and easily place the results into a chat or channel in Teams. More functions will be added overtime, one function they are working on is to create a task in your project management app over the Teams command box.
Take quick actions with slash commands
A convenient new function added to Teams would be the addition of slash commands to help you execute shortcuts quickly.
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