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Copper Contributor

Aug 30, 2019

Teams SharePoint app no access to Lists

In a number of teams, users in our organisation are using SharePoint Lists on a 'website' Teams tab. However, I'm aware that there is a Teams app for SharePoint, that should allow using a list on...

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Jaap_van_der_Velde

Copper Contributor

Aug 30, 2019

Note: I created the list through the SharePoint web interface, as part of the Team's site and when listing 'Site contents' on Sharepoint, the list does show up in the web interface, which is why I'm confused about the Teams app error message.

ChrisWebbTech

MVP

Aug 30, 2019

I forget what causes this but I think the custom list don’t give options.

You have two options here. Create a page and put a list web part in the page. Then add that page as a tab.

Or you can still use the website tab just add ?isdlg=1 and it will get rid of excess chrome. Might be &dlg=1 but I use it for calendar in teams.

Just some work around ideas.

Jaap_van_der_Velde
Copper Contributor
Aug 30, 2019
ChrisWebbTech thanks for the suggestions.

I'll look into creating a 'Page', although it seems to defeat the purpose of having 'Lists' in the app interface to begin with. Are you suggesting there are other types of list (i.e. not "custom") that *would* show up in there? Do you have examples? Perhaps I can make my list show up as that kind of list somehow?

I tried your suggestion to add `?isdlg=1`, but that doesn't just get rid of the chrome in terms of controls I don't want, but it also strips a lot of the styling of the list itself and still exposes many of the editing controls, making the page very awkward and impractical to use, so that's not an improvement, sadly.

I suppose the main question remains: why doesn't the Teams SharePoint app show custom lists?
- ChrisWebbTech
  MVP
  Aug 30, 2019
  Well I see all the lists and custom lists in my SharePoint app(tab). Are you in a GCC tenant or anything that may not have the updated app yet?