Conversations

Conversations are the chats and channels you take part in, such as your Teams chats. You read them, reply, react, attach files and start new chats from Whorl, so a decision made in a chat can lead straight into a Thread.

Conversations is in the sidebar. With Microsoft 365 connected, it shows your Teams chats and channels. See Microsoft 365. Until you connect, the page says your Teams chats and channels show up here and that you can reply to them from Whorl.

Find a conversation⁠

The list has filters:

  • Type: All, People (chats with one other person), Groups, Meetings or Channels.
  • Availability: All, Can reply or Read-only.
  • Ordering: Recent activity, Name A–Z or Name Z–A.

Choose Clear filters to see every chat and channel.

Read and reply⁠

Open a conversation to read it. Unread conversations are marked, and Mark as read and Mark as unread are in the conversation menu.

On a message, use Reply in a chat, or Reply in thread in a channel. You can react to a message. The message menu also has Copy text, Copy message and Copy link, and for your own messages Edit message and Delete message. Deleting asks Delete this message? first. Images have Copy image and Download image.

A reply in a channel opens its own view, and Back to channel returns you to the channel.

Write in the message box and choose Send message. The box offers Mention people, Captains or Threads.

Attach files⁠

Attach up to 10 files to a message. Each file can be up to 10 MiB, and the files together up to 25 MiB. Files in your OneDrive or SharePoint libraries open in a new tab and say they are not in your Files. See Files.

Start a chat⁠

Choose New message. Pick one or more people under People, or choose New group chat. Fill in To and Message, then choose Create. If Whorl cannot start the chat, it says Couldn't start the chat. Try again.

When a send is not confirmed⁠

If Teams does not confirm a send, reply, edit or reaction, Whorl does not guess. You see Send not confirmed or Reply not confirmed, with "Whorl couldn't confirm this went through. It will appear in the conversation if it did." Check the conversation before you send it again. See Microsoft 365.

If your Microsoft sign-in expired, the page says to reauthorize your account in Integrations: Settings → Company → Integrations.

Conversations in Whorl⁠

Note

Conversations that live in Whorl are an experimental feature. An owner or admin turns on Whorl Conversations and Calendar for everyone in Settings → Company → Experimental features. Until then, only Teams chats appear. See Experimental features.

With it on, people in your Organization can send each other direct and group chats that live in Whorl. They are marked Whorl only.

With the experiment on, a company that uses Microsoft 365 can keep conversations in Whorl instead of syncing them with Teams. In Settings → Company → General, switch Conversations sync with Teams chats off. Turning it back on can link a Whorl chat to a Teams chat with the same people: the notice says Linked with your Teams chat, or Teams chats were off. These stayed in Whorl. when they stayed apart.

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