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idcampbell1980

Copper Contributor

Nov 17, 2020

3 (Wait Now Two) Ways to Add a SharePoint Online Document Library

Before today we noticed three ways to add access to a SharePoint Online Document Library in Teams: Add SharePoint as a Tab, paste the URL to the Document Library. (This option, no longer availa...

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PeterRising

MVP

Nov 17, 2020

Hi, I can't comment as to why the first option you speak of may have been removed, but what I do know is that SharePoint Home pages are on their way to Teams, probably in early 2020 as announced at Ignite. Microsoft are constantly trying to improve the experience for us all but sometimes it takes a while to get it perfect.

As for adding cloud storage from the files option, this only permits you to add third party storage options into Teams such as Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, and Citrix ShareFile

idcampbell1980

Copper Contributor

Nov 18, 2020

Thanks PeterRising. Actually, we are able to add our SharePoint online document libraries as Cloud Storage which is preferred since one can access all available views as opposed to adding the SharePoint Doc Library directly as a tab. Unfortunately, though there is no way to update the document properties/metadata.

PeterRising
MVP
Nov 18, 2020
idcampbell1980

So if you go to Files, then click Add Cloud Storage, you have an option to add a SharePoint library?
- idcampbell1980
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 30, 2020
  PeterRising our SharePoint admins found the following roadmap item:
  
  https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&featureid=68860
  
  It appears that Teams is now allowing the ability to add a document library from a SharePoint Tab again. Hopefully it will function like the modern interface and support updating of metadata/document properties.
- idcampbell1980
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 19, 2020
  PeterRising Correct. It behaves similar to the SP Online Modern Interface, though you cannot manage document properties which is very disappointing.