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Private channel - sync to explorer doubles the site name
- Hi guys,
This is as designed. Private channels create separate site collections. In explorer, it is showing the name of the site collection not a duplication.
Example of standard channel
EVG-Finance (site collection) - General (Folder)
Example of private channel
EVG-Finance - Payroll (Site Collection) - Payroll (Folder)
Hope that makes sense. It is the way that Teams is architected. I can see how it’s confusing as part of the site collection is named the same as the folder and gives the impression when synced to explorer that it’s duplicated when it’s not.
Hope that answers your question. We all have the same 😄
Best, Chris
Rob Ellis, PDostiyar Thanks for your response!
It doesn't matter how many private channels I create, when I sync them, they always show up with the double name. See screenshot below: "EVG-IT - Management - Management"
The double name does not happen with standard channels.
Do you experience the same behavior when you sync private channels? If so, I guess this is working as designed?
This is as designed. Private channels create separate site collections. In explorer, it is showing the name of the site collection not a duplication.
Example of standard channel
EVG-Finance (site collection) - General (Folder)
Example of private channel
EVG-Finance - Payroll (Site Collection) - Payroll (Folder)
Hope that makes sense. It is the way that Teams is architected. I can see how it’s confusing as part of the site collection is named the same as the folder and gives the impression when synced to explorer that it’s duplicated when it’s not.
Hope that answers your question. We all have the same 😄
Best, Chris
- This is an awful design and wastes a lot of space and causes confusion. Surely MS can come up with something better.
- Hi - this is still a problem and I'm surprised that the official response to "this is a huge UI/UX issue" is "we planned it that way." Teams sync is used by many people with limited computer knowledge, not being able to even rename the shortcuts is a huge mistake.
- Agree. This is not logical at all from a user perspective. Nobody cares about the design of the Sharepoint sites and libraries in the background (except the admin) .
Having a understandable structure is a basic requirement. I really like the advantages Teams, Sharepoint and OneDrive provide. But sometimes I wonder, if the designers of the UX ever talked to an enduser.
Here a feature-request I've posted recently. Something in that direction would be nice:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/945df97d-9337-ee11-a81c-6045bdbbbc93Morning all
Just getting back onto the tech community after a long time.
This has been an issue for a long time, and can be shown when it was opened here in the Tech Community. It was raised on UserVoice 100%, but then if I remember I don't think it was migrated to Feedback Portal when Microsoft moved the uservoices over. It has been raised anew several times per these ones
And the ones provided above
Microsoft ideally needs to consolidate all the feedback items into a single one, and then as many people raise on it as possible to get it in front of engineering. Now there is the possible workaround as someone suggested above - but ideally the real solution is to fix it natively and not have to make manual changes locally which could cause issues, difficult to manage programatically and adds overhead when there are issues. I'll bring it to the attention of the engineering team: doesn't mean anything may happen, but hopefully they can start amalgamating these so it shows more people want to see this change.
Thanks so much for pushing this native design change forward
Best, Chris
ChrisHoardMVPThis may be as designed but it is a terrible design. It looks like something is wrong and it takes up too much space. MS should fix this.
- 1) Rename the existing private channel in Teams to say Payroll2
2) Sync it
3) Now the synced private channel shows up as Teams - Payroll
4) Rename the the existing private channel in Teams back to Payrollpba-Boston I tried this, it didn't change anything. Maybe I did it wrong. Was it supposed to remove the duplicate name?
