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Share a link to an app in Teams sidebar
Hey, does anyone know how to provide a link to an app in the sidebar? I'm looking specifically for Viva Learning but I figure there should be a way to do it for any app?
The user should be able to click the link and it opens Teams and the desired app.
This is for apps in a user's sidebar, not an app in a channel.
Cheers!
Found it! You can create a deep link to the app. Here's the quickest way I've found to do it.
To create a link to a personal app (sidebar) in Microsoft Teams:
- Open the web version of Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com
- Open the app you want to link to
- Copy the URL
- In the URL
- replace /_#/apps/ with /l/entity/
- delete /sections
Here's an example using Viva Learning:
<!-- URL from the web version of Microsoft Teams --> https://teams.microsoft.com/_#/apps/2e3a628d-6f54-4100-9e7a-f00bc3621a85/sections/MyLearning <!-- Updated URL to open desktop version of Microsoft Teams to the app --> https://teams.microsoft.com/l/entity/2e3a628d-6f54-4100-9e7a-f00bc3621a85/MyLearningIf you're looking for the HTML, I'd recommend opening the link in a new tab/page:
<a href="https://teams.microsoft.com/l/entity/2e3a628d-6f54-4100-9e7a-f00bc3621a85/MyLearning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Viva Learning</a>You can test it here: Try this link to open Viva Learning
Here are some more links for examples and reference:
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Found it! You can create a deep link to the app. Here's the quickest way I've found to do it.
To create a link to a personal app (sidebar) in Microsoft Teams:
- Open the web version of Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com
- Open the app you want to link to
- Copy the URL
- In the URL
- replace /_#/apps/ with /l/entity/
- delete /sections
Here's an example using Viva Learning:
<!-- URL from the web version of Microsoft Teams --> https://teams.microsoft.com/_#/apps/2e3a628d-6f54-4100-9e7a-f00bc3621a85/sections/MyLearning <!-- Updated URL to open desktop version of Microsoft Teams to the app --> https://teams.microsoft.com/l/entity/2e3a628d-6f54-4100-9e7a-f00bc3621a85/MyLearningIf you're looking for the HTML, I'd recommend opening the link in a new tab/page:
<a href="https://teams.microsoft.com/l/entity/2e3a628d-6f54-4100-9e7a-f00bc3621a85/MyLearning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Viva Learning</a>You can test it here: Try this link to open Viva Learning
Here are some more links for examples and reference:
- If it is viva learning there should be a app that can be added to the sidebar or via a policy else you need to create a custom app if it is a specific link.
Paul_Keijzers ideally I want to put a link on a SharePoint site that will let users open Viva Learning in Teams instead of having to direct them to the web version.
