Delete Channels from a List/Folder/Space
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Alex Looper
Right now, we can manually create channels outside of a list and delete them with no problem. But when we create a channel inside a list using Channel View, there is no way to delete it.
This causes a buildup of extra channels on the backend. We can only hide them, which clutters everything, especially if a channel is created by mistake.
Please make it possible to delete channels that are created through a List → Channel View.
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Brendan W
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Mel
Do we have a date when this will come out?
Rebecca Holderbaum
Hi there,
we migrated our team's Slack channels into ClickUp Chat. As part of that migration, each channel was created as a location-based Channel, automatically bound to a dedicated List (e.g., our folder "[com] Channels" contains several Lists that exist solely to host a Channel and contain no tasks at all — same pattern repeats across multiple client Spaces with "project-channel" Lists).
Problem is: there was no other way to migrate the chats vom Slack to ClickUp
These Lists now clutter our Space/Folder hierarchy, but the Channels themselves are actively used for daily work, so deleting or archiving the underlying List is not an option — per your documentation, that would delete/archive the Channel and all its messages along with it.
My question: is there any supported way to detach a location-based Channel from its List/Folder/Space (converting it to a standalone/locationless Channel), so we could remove the now-unnecessary List from our hierarchy while keeping the Channel and its full message history fully intact and active?
If there's no self-service option for this, is it something your team can do on the backend, or is a "convert/detach Channel from location" feature on your roadmap? We've seen related feature requests in your feedback boards (e.g., "Disaggregate Channels from List") but no confirmed timeline.
Thanks for your help.
Miracle Ifeakachi
Brendan W Hi, is this ability added yet? thanks🙏
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Brock Mammoser
Brendan W how long are we looking at this feature and the feature to limit who can create channels?
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Wayne Staniland
I accidentally created a channel in a list and after an hour of trying to try & delete or undo this, have just realised the ability to do this hasn't been actioned yet. Please fix - you shouldn't have to delete an entire list over a mistaken addition.
Brendan W
Wayne Staniland: Coming soon! Stay tuned!
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Steph Glen
I'd also love this functionality - our space hierarchy included channels in folder but channels being created in the wrong areas (lists/spaces) that can't be deleted is causing confusion in comms with our team.
Brendan W
Steph Glen: Thanks for the feedback! Stay tuned. You might also want to upvote another feature request we have for limiting who can create Channels on locations
Pedro Argemiro
Any predictions about this improvement? Are you going out in this quarter yet?
Brendan W
Pedro Argemiro: Almost done - stay tuned!
Marco Budde
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Brendan W
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Do not show unused channels in the channel picker
Thibaut
Due to automatic location-based based channels, we have a lot of unused channels. These channels still show up in the channel picker (e.g. when writing
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) and this is confusing and sub-optimal. It would be great to either have the possibility to remove these channels (I think that's not aligned with how you look at things), or to at lease not show unused channels in the picker.Brendan W
updated the status to
building now
This post should have been marked in progress but merging some different posts into this one messed up the status.
Safe to say we are working on this actively!
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