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Teams Files, SP Document Library, Best Practices
Hello Community, New Teams user here. I have resisted Teams for a while but I am now taking another look, especially in these pandemic times. I like the how Teams allows collaboration in a cent...
Hi! You are correct, having a separate team for each project makes sense here! Surely you can have a team of private channels for each project but it makes more sense to have a separate team.
You can’t alter the files tab and where that points to! You can however add a SharePoint library tab to the team and point it to the other library.
Teams honors all SharePoint permissions so who can access what is based on permissions set within SharePoint. All members of a team have default read/write access to the files in the teams SP site (files tab) but if you are adding a different library as a tab or a files folder within the files tab, these are controlled by the permissions you set in this library.
I’d recommend thinking thoughtfully about this and how you want to do this. Are you keeping all files in a separate library vs moving some files etc..since there seems to be a lot of different permissions, you don’t want to get stuck in a permissions nightmare. Also try out the experience with the files from other sources than the default library from within Teams
Adam
You can’t alter the files tab and where that points to! You can however add a SharePoint library tab to the team and point it to the other library.
Teams honors all SharePoint permissions so who can access what is based on permissions set within SharePoint. All members of a team have default read/write access to the files in the teams SP site (files tab) but if you are adding a different library as a tab or a files folder within the files tab, these are controlled by the permissions you set in this library.
I’d recommend thinking thoughtfully about this and how you want to do this. Are you keeping all files in a separate library vs moving some files etc..since there seems to be a lot of different permissions, you don’t want to get stuck in a permissions nightmare. Also try out the experience with the files from other sources than the default library from within Teams
Adam