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Victoria Symons
Oct 17, 2022Brass Contributor
Sharepoint Hubsite in Teams with Viva Connections - hub menu bar disappears in SP document libraries
Hi. I have added my SharePoint Hubsite to the MS Teams main menu, as an App, using Viva Connections. This allows my users to access their SharePoint sites (where we keep most of our docs) direct from...
Victoria Symons
Oct 18, 2022Brass Contributor
Hi Dave, Thanks for coming back to me.
All the sites shown are associated with the Hub. All the libraries are on the Hub associated sites.
The site links are all in this format
https://tenantname.sharepoint.com/sites/Administration1
All the library links are in this format
https://tenantname.sharepoint.com/sites/Administration1/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx
The Hub link in Teams is showing strange behaviour.
1. If I click on the Hubsite link when I first open up Teams, it is active and does take me to my Hubsite as expected. When I'm on the Hubsite homepage and click back on the Hubsite link in Teams I see the connected sites in the side menu like so... This I think is the expected behaviour.
2. At the next level, when I select a linked Team site, I often lose the Hubsite bar. This does not happen every time I open a site - but once it does - I can't get back to the Hub
3. At the next level, when I select a linked Team site libraries - same thing - there no hubsite tool bar or even indication as to which site you are on.
At this point the Hubsite button in Teams also becomes inactive, marooning the user where they are.
Moving between the Teams Apps on the Teams toolbar doesn't force a refresh either - so a library is a dead end for the user.
This rather makes the whole thing useless.
Thanks for your help, Vicki
DaveMehr365
Oct 18, 2022MVP
Hello Victoria Symons
absolutly agree, it's not the experience, that we, and the users, wish.
Do you use the default app?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/add-viva-connections-app
Or have you created a custom app?
Best, Dave
- Victoria SymonsOct 18, 2022Brass ContributorSo I added the Hubsite app to our tenant using a powershell script.
This looks like there is a new inbuilt way to do to it.- DaveMehr365Oct 18, 2022MVP
Hello Victoria Symons
yes, please try to use the default app: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/add-viva-connections-app
I'm looking forward to your feedback.
Best, Dave
- Victoria SymonsOct 18, 2022Brass ContributorOk I deleted my first app and set it up again using the default viva connections app preloaded to Teams and exactly the same thing happens.
Was wondering if it's something to do with the links. In the Hub Nav there are different options, Link, Associated hubs & Associated Child Hubs. I've used the standard 'link', because my child/team sites are not 'hubs'.