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

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

  • As we have in SharePoint, permissions to comment on list items will be same
  • Users with read permissions will only view comments
  • Users with edit permissions can add delete permissions

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 ID70707

Microsoft Teams - RoadMap ID 70707 - Microsoft Lists: Enabling commenting to Lists app in Teams
Fig : Microsoft Teams – RoadMap ID 70707 – Microsoft Lists: Enabling commenting to Lists app in Teams

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
Microsoft Teams - new feature - comments and mention in the list
Fig : Microsoft Teams – new feature – comments and mentions in the list
  • If there is no comments already then we have “add comment” icon as shown in below fig
Microsoft Teams - new feature - Adding comments and mentions in list  - new comment icon
Fig : Microsoft Teams – new feature – Adding comments and mentions in list – new comment icon
  • 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
Microsoft Teams - new feature - Adding new comment to list item
Fig : Microsoft Teams – new feature – Adding new comment to list item
  • Once comments are added we could see existing comments and reply / delete / new comment by going to list item and from “Comments” link
Microsoft Teams - new feature - comments and mentions in the list
Fig : Microsoft Teams – new feature – comments and mentions in the list
  • 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
Microsoft Teams - new feature - Comments and Mentions for list items - when any user mentioned in comment section - respective user receives email
Fig : Microsoft Teams – new feature – Comments and Mentions for list items – when any user mentioned in comment section – respective user receives email
Microsoft Teams - new feature - Comments and Mentions for list items - when any user mentioned in comment section - respective user receives email
Microsoft Teams – new feature – Comments and Mentions for list items – when any user mentioned in comment section – respective user receives email

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

Prasham Sabadra

LIFE IS VERY BEAUTIFUL. ENJOY THE WHOLE JOURNEY :) Founder of Microsoft 365 Junction, Speaker, Author, Learner, Developer, Passionate Techie. Certified Professional Workshop Facilitator / Public Speaker. Believe in knowledge sharing. Around 20+ years of total IT experience and 17+ years of experience in SharePoint and Microsoft 365 services Please feel free me to contact for any SharePoint / Microsoft 365 queries. I am also very much interested in behavioral (life changing) sessions like motivational speeches, Success, Goal Setting, About Life, How to live Life etc. My book - Microsoft 365 Power Shell hand book for Administrators and Beginners and 100 Power Shell Interview Questions - https://www.amazon.in/Microsoft-Administrators-Beginners-Interview-Questions/dp/9394901639/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1679029081&sr=8-11

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