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How to smoothly navigate from Teams to Sharepoint and vice versa (as if it were one environment)
Hello all! I hope you can help me! Currently I'm experimenting with a group of our students to use Teams in combination with Sharepoint as a digital learning environment. We have the Team to commun...
SharePoint pages added as Tabs into Microsoft Channels (via either the SharePoint or Web Site Tab) are read-only (prevent editing) and elements of the full page are removed, for example the navigation.
A suggestion to address this limitation is to create a page in SharePoint that has links (quick links, test links, buttons, hero web part etc.) to key content, lists and libraries in the site, thus allowing visitors to navigate key areas. Alternatively people can use the "Go To Web Site" link in the top right corner to open the site in a web browser to get the full experience. (Some guidance on the page itself can help).
James Mallalieu , thank you so much for your answer!
I considered (and tried) exactly what you suggest. At the moment I am using the the top right 'go to website' link. I tried the option where I put links on the sharepoint page to navigate, but the same problem occurred: the site often does not load correctly within Teams, and Teams suggests to open it as a separate page: consequently the users end up outside the Team environment again and will have to find their way back. Facing me with the same issue (how to navigate smoothly between Teams and Sharepoint) all over again :-).
Thanks a lot for your suggestions!!!
Kim_TS makes a good point here.
Teams is designed for getting work done.
For SharePoint sites designed to be provisioned to larger audiences for the purpose of rendering documents to view, surfacing Forms, displaying Stream videos or accessing PowerApps apps, Teams offers absolutely nothing to them and in fact, makes doing any of these things much harder than simply using a well appointed SharePoint site. I am plagued by people who want to "use Teams" but really want something like what I described and are then confused why it it is so hard to work with. Most people where I work do not use the "posts" feature, sticking with their email, so Teams is really not doing a thing that they couldn't do in SharePoint. Some even are still using Zoom for the actual meeting cast!
In any event, being able to fully navigate SharePoint from Teams so they work together as opposed to be and "either or" situation would be a big improvement in my opinion.
