Forum Discussion
Save/attach from emails in MS Outlook 2016 to SharePoint site
- This is now possible using the Outlook Desktop and modern browsers - take a look: https://jonasbjerke.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/you-can-now-drag-e-mails-from-outlook-directly-to-sharepoint/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365/Save-email-attachments-from-MS-Outlook-2016-to-SharePoint-site/td-p/16555
I see Juan is on that thread already. Any idea how up to date this information is?
Hi
Yes, to clarify, I'm talking about SharePoint Online (not Groups or OneDrive 4 Business)
There are a couple of issues with the current functionality.
1. Saving attachments doesn't seem to have any links to SPO (I get the option to save to OneDrive/OneDrive for Business or Groups, but not SharePoint online sites)
2. Attaching from SharePoint Online gives me the option to attach from 6 recent folders, but not the option to select a different site to attach from.
The thread teslateser refers to does seem to be the most relevant, but is quite old - is there any update on this?
As a general comment, SharePoint/Office integration really does seem to be poor given how long SharePoint (and Office) have been around. We've just about got the ability in Office to save/open files from Sites in Word/PowerPoint/Excel now, but it's a big issue for adoption within organisations when it is so hard to save to SharePoint vs. saving to a file share/local drive. (Which is what people do instead!).
thanks
Angus
Sorry to bump this old thread but I'm hoping to find out why a feature that used to work is still broken after about a year. Attaching files as SPO link rather than local file.
Angus you mentioned in your post 4 years ago that when you wanted to attached a file from SPO and you couldn't see the option to view others sites:
2. Attaching from SharePoint Online gives me the option to attach from 6 recent folders, but not the option to select a different site to attach from.
It appears I'm having the same problem, I only see recent folders but I have multiple sites in my organisation and showing only 6 recent ones does not allow me to attach a SPO file into an email, it only attaches the file as a local version when I drag & drop or choose insert from PC.
I've found a way around it by copying the SPO URL into an email but for end users the option to choose to share as a link or local version no longer works, and I've changed default setting within Outlook settings which makes no difference:
I have raised this with Microsoft through our partner support but 2 weeks in they've got no fix.
Does anyone have a suitable simply solution at all that I can share with end users.
- From all that I read on this, the functionality of it in SP 2013 was unintentional and undocumented. It looks like they have 'fixed' the problem and aren't really excited about putting it back in after so long. It may benefit some 3rd party companies, but it is making us look at other platforms which hurts Microsoft's bottom line.
- I'm not aware of any update, but maybe Vasil has more info. to share here
Hi
Vasil - is there any update? I've also realised this is not supported in Outlook Web app either - OneDrive for Business and Groups are, but not standard SharePoint sites.
I'm on the brink of rolling out storage of client-related documents in SharePoint but am concerned by the lack of integration...any reply would be appreciated!
thanks
Angus
