Microsoft 365 : SharePoint Online – New feature – Lists in Microsoft Teams: Comment and @mention people on list items in Teams

by Prasham Sabadra · October 22, 2021

Microsoft Teams - new feature - comments and mentions in the list

Hi All,

Greetings for the day 🙂 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂

Today new feature related to Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online 🙂

Feature : Lists in Microsoft Teams: Comments and @mention people on list items in Teams

Details :

Commenting capability available for Lists on the web to Lists within Teams
Users will be able to view, delete, and add comments on a list item inside Teams
We could also mention the users in comments by using @ – sign with person’s name to tag
Users who are mentioned in comments are notified by emails
This feature is rolled out for desktops, web and mobile

Permissions to comment on List items in Teams :

Release dates :

Targeted release : Starting and ending roll out by mid October
Standard release : Starting in mid October and ending complete roll out by late October

Microsoft 365 associated RoadMap ID – 70707

Demo :

I have created a one list – “Microsoft Graph Useful References” in My Team – “Prasham Cloud Talk” as shown in below fig
Next one item in the list as shown in below fig, if there are already comments added then for list item it shows comment icon as shown in below fig – When a list item has a comment, an icon appears next to the item

If there is no comments already then we have “add comment” icon as shown in below fig

If we click on “add comment” icon – we will be redirected to list item and from light side we could add the comment as shown in below fig

Once comments are added we could see existing comments and reply / delete / new comment by going to list item and from “Comments” link

As mentioned in above details section – if we mention any specific user in comments, the respective user receives the email
Here, I am (user – Prasham Sabadra) mentioning the user – “Prasham1 Sabadra” in comments
User “Prasham1 Sabadra” receives following email – please have a look at “To” section

Thanks for reading 🙂 HAVE A GREAT FESTIVALS AHEAD 🙂 ENJOY THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE 🙂