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Copper Contributor

Oct 02, 2020

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Unable to add existing list to Lists in Teams channel

I am having an issue adding an existing list to Lists in Teams. I can add all other lists from this group/site to the desired Teams channel, except this one. I am getting an error: "That link did not...

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NHarzic
Mar 15, 2021
That rings a bell. We created the SharePoint list by exporting from an Excel table. I am sure this is a similar problem, because if I create a new SharePoint list from scratch it is available in Teams Lists. I have found the workaround is to simply use the Website tab and paste in the list URL there. This seems to do exactly the same thing.
Thank you for your reply, Natalie

joeledvina

joeledvina

Copper Contributor

Mar 15, 2021

I think my problem was that I had created the list by exporting a query in Access directly to SharePoint. I got a simple reply somewhere else that adding such a list to Teams was not supported. The only workaround was to download the list to Excel and then upload to SharePoint as a new list, but that meant I had to re-create all of my views.

NHarzic

Iron Contributor

Mar 15, 2021

That rings a bell. We created the SharePoint list by exporting from an Excel table. I am sure this is a similar problem, because if I create a new SharePoint list from scratch it is available in Teams Lists. I have found the workaround is to simply use the Website tab and paste in the list URL there. This seems to do exactly the same thing.

Thank you for your reply, Natalie

joeledvina

pwintert
Copper Contributor
Dec 21, 2021
This did work for me as well, its simple enough to do. Really strange the share link the site generates doesn't do the same thing. One concern I had is I wanted to change the permission to read only on the shared team. Anyway to adjust this so its read only while sharing it this way?
tebohoramosa
Copper Contributor
Jun 02, 2021
NHarzic Life Saver!! Thanks
- Heshan_Xray
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 14, 2021
  tebohoramosa NHarzic
  I did the website workaround but the tab fails to load my list. However, i get a message "if your site isnt loading correctly, click here"
  
  on clicking "here" it opens another web page with the list correctly displayed.
  But it isnt displayed in teams.
  hesh
joeledvina
Copper Contributor
Mar 15, 2021
Thank you, Natalie, for that workaround! I had another list that I wanted to view in Teams and did not want to re-create. It doesn't follow my "dark" theme, but I'd rather have that only on conversations anyway, so if anything it's an improvement for me over the default list tab.