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DHarrison
Mar 24, 2022Copper Contributor
Creating a Shortcut of a file from one Team Channel to another
Has anyone found a way to create a shortcut link for a file that is hosted in Team Channel A and I'd like to link it into Team Channel B? So only the 1-excel file is being worked on.
- Apr 04, 2022
DHarrison You can solve it by doing the following (but it is not a pretty solution that i recommend...)
- Copy the link to your document (in Teams).
- Then go to the channel where you want a link to the document.
- Click on the "Files tab" and then select "Open in SharePoint".
- When the document library opens, click "New" and select "Link".
- Paste the url you copied into the document, and then save.
Now you can go back to the channel and see in "Files" that the link is available there.
(Once again, this is an ugly solution but if it works for you then it works.)
AnastasiaLogan
Jul 14, 2023Copper Contributor
MagnusGoksoyrOLDProfile Hi- has there been any further updates to this? the current solution only allows a link to the online version, which is no good. Id like it to link within Teams. Thanks
Boris1000
Aug 24, 2023Copper Contributor
AnastasiaLogan I believe this is actually there. I simply went to the Files tab of the channel in which the file 'lives' (although as all of us understand, the file is actually living in Sharepoint...just visible in Teams). I selected the 'copy link' option from the ellipses of the file. The standard link dialogue box from Sharepoint popped up. Our org defaults to 'everyone in your organization'. I actually wanted it limited to those that are in the team. So I changed to 'those with existing access' link type, created/copied it. Then I went to the other channel where I wanted to have access to the file (but not create a copy, as has been rightly pointed out as a bad idea). In the post, I just pasted the link. Teams automatically knew not only to not print the long ugly Sharepoint link, but it actually created the link in the new post as a file icon...and moreover it shows where the source file lives in the Teams structure. I believe I recall this has been around for a while in Teams. I used it in a previous org (this is years ago), and am only returning to it in this instance for this new org. And the look/feel is very much like what I remembered years back. In other words, I think this has been there for a while (and maybe just not known that it was that simple?)
For whatever it's worth, the two channels that are cross referencing each other are both 'standard' channel types (meaning that team members have access to these channels). I don't know if mixing/matching private or share channels would be the same.
Hope that helps, and hope it works for whomever is interested.