Microsoft Teams just added a key new feature
Microsoft's Lists reimagines the spreadsheet for collaboration with lists on top of Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft has moved its new app Microsoft Lists to generally availability as an add-on to its popular Teams collaboration and video-meeting app.
The Lists app is a 'team-based tab app' for tracking information that's built on the Microsoft Teams platform. It represents Microsoft's efforts to shape Teams for different verticals, with a focus on industries with compliance requirements, such as healthcare, banking, and government, but also for other verticals.
Teams was given a major boost from mass remote working at the outset of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. In March, Teams had 44 million daily active users, but the company didn't offer an update on daily active users at its Q4 FY 2020 earnings in July.
The Lists app has five key capabilities:
- New list creation from scratch, from templates, from Excel table data and from an existing list. There are eight standard templates and three industry specific ones, including Patients, Loans, and Incidents.
- Importing existing team lists as new tabs.
- All standard list features that you can access in SharePoint web: column types, view formatting, Quick Edit, exporting to Excel, sorting, filtering, etc.
- The ability to have a channel conversation about a list item.
- All user actions on the list are audited and available in the Security and compliance center audit logging.
Healthcare organizations can use Lists to conduct patient rounding, multi-disciplinary huddles and discharge planning. Government agencies can use Lists to track incidents and manage incident response, while loan officers at a bank can use the app to track a set of loans or collaborate on moving an application to approval. Users can also start a conversation about an individual item on a list.
Users can try Lists by going to a channel where they would like to track a list and hit the "+" button. From there, the Lists app can be accessed from the tab gallery.
Lists is available on the Teams app for Android and iOS, as well as the web and the desktop app.