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Copper Contributor

Jun 28, 2023

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SharePoint Documents Stopped Populating Teams Documents

My team and I use SharePoint for holding shared documents we all work on and access them through the Teams desktop app. We have a tab for Documents and everything was linked and working till last wee...

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HelloBenTeoh
Jun 28, 2023
TheWayward1 Hey, I think this is a bug as I'm experiencing the same thing - but the workaround I've found is to add a 'Document Library' tab which seems to work ok.
Select Add a tab
Search and add 'Document Library'
Select Use a SharePoint link
Enter/Paste the URL of your document library then select Go
Select the document library then select Next
Select the folder then select Next
Enter the name for the tab then select Save
(Take a breath because this feels like a lot of steps just to add a tab... 😅)
It would help to report the issue as well via Help > Give Feeback

StevenC365

MVP

Jun 28, 2023

TheWayward1 The Teams files tab is simply a view of the folder for that channel in the SharePoint document library, there isn't a process of copying or population that makes them appear there.

Could you be saving the files into a different folder in the document library, one which is not shown in your channel? Can you show them side by side, SharePoint looking one way and Teams another?

TheWayward1
Copper Contributor
Jun 28, 2023
Couldn't get the picture here to work for some reason, here's a link to imgbb for a temp screenshot. https://ibb.co/XtFtkbV
- HelloBenTeoh
  Bronze Contributor
  Jun 28, 2023
  TheWayward1 Hey, I think this is a bug as I'm experiencing the same thing - but the workaround I've found is to add a 'Document Library' tab which seems to work ok.
  Select Add a tab
  Search and add 'Document Library'
  Select Use a SharePoint link
  Enter/Paste the URL of your document library then select Go
  Select the document library then select Next
  Select the folder then select Next
  Enter the name for the tab then select Save
  (Take a breath because this feels like a lot of steps just to add a tab... 😅)
  It would help to report the issue as well via Help > Give Feeback
  - TheWayward1
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 29, 2023
    Thanks! Implemented the workaround without a problem and gave the feedback.
TheWayward1
Copper Contributor
Jun 28, 2023
StevenC365 Here's a screenshot of what I'm looking at. The left is the desktop Teams app, the middle is the online Teams, and the right is the relevant SharePoint site. Thanks for any help.

Edit: Sorry, I seem to be having trouble getting the screenshot to post.
- TheWayward1
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 28, 2023
  TheWayward1