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Creating a hierarchical Teams structure
We are moving to Teams to manage a variety of projects. One of our major concerns is managing documents associated with any given project. We would like to do this in a consistent manner across projects (we are a small organization with <50 people). So we would like to have a master Team for all Projects with a corresponding file structure addressable through Teams/Files, SharePoint, and OneDrive. The drawing reflects a reasonable facsimile of our intent.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ky9xtov2aghr894/image.png?dl=0
In this representation, the Master Team in the hierarchy is Our Projects Team, with three subordinate Teams, with Team appropriate channels and consistent file structures. I have not seen anything that indicates this is possible. I have seen where I can essentially copy a Team and replicate the channels, but nothing quite like what we have in mind.
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Hi Jims-IMLLC
To maintain consistent file and folder structure, you can consider creating custom templates, and then create Project 1, Project 2, and Project 3 teams based out of the template.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/create-a-team-template
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/create-template-from-existing-team
- Thank you. I'll review the references.
- It looks to me that all you need to do is to create 3 directories whenever you create a project team.
EWoodrick I tested that but it doesn't apply the hierarchy. You get a lot of parallel teams from what I can tell. I may be missing something though.
- As I looked at your picture again, you have Teams in Teams, I don't believe that you can do that.
What we do is just create a Team with the name of the project in a consistent format and then go into the files and create the 3 folders that you have.
