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Vidya Srinivasan's avatar
Vidya Srinivasan
Brass Contributor
Apr 11, 2017

Shipped to First Release: Discovering the SharePoint mobile apps

Today, we shipped the first of many features to help people get even more out of SharePoint by finding and downloading the SharePoint mobile apps! Your SharePoint Home experience will now feature a “...
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Philip Worrell's avatar
Philip Worrell
Iron Contributor
Apr 12, 2017
Also can you fix the mobile apps so they can see document libraries for sites created from a template can actually be found. I.e. item objects with id's starting 8000. As the mobile apps are pretty useless to us as user cannot see their content.

This also goes for the web copy to functionality. None of our site libraries except default out of the box ones can be found.

Third party apps appear to have no problem with finding these. So it must be possible.

Thanks
Nate Clinton's avatar
Nate Clinton
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Apr 12, 2017

Hi Philip.. can you provide a bit more info about the issues you are seeing?  The steps you take to reproduce the issue, plus screenshots would be great.

 

Thanks!
Nate

  • Philip Worrell's avatar
    Philip Worrell
    Iron Contributor
    Apr 13, 2017

    I'm away from my office for the next few days. Howeverer here is the process I have been through. 

     

    I open up a site created by our standard template I can see all the libraries etc and work with them as normal. 

     

    I go to the Sharepoint app on my device find the same site none of the libraries appear 

     

    I see the activity feed and files views are populated.

    If I go under lists I see only one item which is tasks.

     

    Under Sitenavigation I see all the site structure as expected

    If I navigate into any library I get No data available,something went wrong.

     

    Now if I flip back to lists, that library will appear on the list then disappear 

     

    If I then go back to the site. Create an out of the box library. Populate it with some content. 

    Go back to the app. Navigate to the site, open the site navigation, open the new library and everything works as expected. 

     

    I am seeing similar behaviour with the copy to function in the OneDrive for Business web interface. The libraries their simply do not show up unless they were out of the box created libraries. 

     

    Our Developer tells me that minimal changes were done to modify the libraries. Added a few content  types and set versioning levels. These were done back on 2013 Sharepoint before we migrated to Sharepoint online.

     

     

    I tried a few things like matching the settings of an out of the box library on our templated libraries and vice versa and still the same result. 

     

    I had a look through the objects using the Sharepoint browser tool https://spcb.codeplex.com/

    It showed our libraries were of a different type name of the standard and were of an id in the range of 8000 where stadnard document libraries are type 101

     

    Sorry no screen shot available at the moment. 

     

     

    • Bastiaan Kortenbout's avatar
      Bastiaan Kortenbout
      Brass Contributor
      May 03, 2017

      Try to add the library to the quicklaunch navigation by opening the Library settings -> Title, description navigation -> Display this document library on the Quick Launch -> Yes.

       

      Adding the library to the navigation by manually adding it as a link to the quicklaunch doesn't work. I believe if you add it using the library settings, it works :-)

       

      I think if you do it like this, the library is visible in the SharePoint Online mobile app, and also on the Copy-To functionality from OneDrive for Business. But please let me know if this works.

      • Philip Worrell's avatar
        Philip Worrell
        Iron Contributor
        May 03, 2017
        Tried that. It does not appear to work.

        At least not on our environment.
        Creating new out of box libraries in the same sites work.

        Thanks for the info.
    • Nate Clinton's avatar
      Nate Clinton
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      Apr 14, 2017
      We are taking a look at this Philip to see if we can reproduce on our end. Thanks for the info!
      • Quincy Thomas's avatar
        Quincy Thomas
        Copper Contributor
        Apr 19, 2017

        Hi Nate,

        I ran into the same issue as Philip on the OneDrive part (Copy To not possible on particular sites) at one of our customers. Sites that weren't based on the Teamsite template showed empty libraries. I haven't tested this app yet, but maybe this can help your team.

        For my customer we were using Publishing sites (for some unknown reason). As soon as we migrated those sites over to the Teamsite template, it all starting working.

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