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Copper Contributor

Oct 02, 2020

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

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

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.