The forwarding functionality introduced with version 7.2 is not enough.
In the daily business one of the most cases is:
A colleague sends you a direct message with some important informations maybe also with some documents as attachments.
And you would like to forward this message to another colleague, because you think also he needs this informations.
Now in mattermost you have to do the following:
download the attachments of the original message.
copy the original text message
create a new direct message to the other colleague
paste the text message
attach the downloaded original attachments
send new direct message
Why not implement this functionality with a simple menu point that can forward a recieved direct message to another person (or channel)?
I suggest to implement this functionality because in my daily life and work with mattermost this function is one which I would need most and it would save me a lot of time (and I know a lot of other people who desire exactly this functionality also very hard) .
Thanks for the request and welcome to the Mattermost forums!
I can see you already posted this at the user voice platform, which is a good place for such requests.
Also there have been some talks lately about the already existing message forward functionality and how it could be improved and there were lots of users who would want to have this feature just like you described it, so I’m positive that it will be implemented in this way in one of the next few versions.
I would like to add something to the above requirement:
We have a requirement to send a “direct message” to another user, regardless of which channel he belongs to.
However, we do not want to make this solution available to every user, i.e. the existing possibilities should remain as they are.
is this really the right thread? We’re in a thread with regards to message forwarding here and the initial post does not seem to be from you. Can you confirm?
I don’t understand why mattermost disabled this function.
It is one of the most frequently function of a messenger to forward messages to a colleague.
Justification with “data protection” is nonsense: Everyone can copy/paste/screenshot. And all users are in their own mattermost shell.
So why not forward a received message to another user on the same mattermost server!
I usually just copy the message and paste it into the new chat or channel—it works fine for now. Would be nice if there was a smoother way, kind of like how text messaging apps let you forward things with a tap. For keeping context, I also paste in who sent it or say “forwarded from [name].”