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I have an app that uses microsoft's graphAPI to create channels in my organizations Team dynamically. All is well and I can create the channels, except the channels I'm creating are marked as hidden - users need to manually "show" the channel before reading messages or even get notifications.

Is there any way to bypass this "hidden" thing? Can i force the created channels to be visible for every user in the team, without the approving them first.

Itay Davidson
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In theory, this function is controlled by isFavoriteByDefault, and when setting it to true, the channel should automatically be marked 'favorite' for all members of the team.

Unfortunately, after doing some research and test, I find that this property can't be changed through Graph API. So currently we can't bypass the "hidden" thing.

A similar post: Microsoft graph BETA add Microsoft Teams channel with isfavoritebydefault. The Microsoft engineer mentioned that could be they didn't fix the path POST /teams/id/channels.

Allen Wu
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I was able to add this but I see some inconsistency in the responses. For example if i run a flow that does the graph api process to create a channel within a team it only sets the show under channels for my account not the rest of the users associated with it. I don't know if anyone else has experienced this or has a fix.

Here is my sample: 

{
  "requests": [
    {
      "url": "/teams/{varTeamID}/channels",
      "method": "POST",
      "id": 1,
      "headers": {
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
      },
      "body": {
        "displayName": "{varChannelName}",
        "description": "This channel is in existence for",
        "isFavoriteByDefault": true
      }
    }
  ]
}
Chris Barber
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