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Fields2015
Copper Contributor
Jul 29, 2019

Adding a Website on left sidebar

Hello,

 

I have a website that i wanted to add on Left Panel. I know that I can customize and remove apps that are on the left panel by going to the Teams Admin. But, when I want to add a website, that option doesn't show up (altough it shows up on the group tabs).

Is there a way to add a website on the Left Panel?

 

Thank you.

  • Fields2015 Actually, I saved something I read about how to do this. Have never tried it, but maybe this can give you some hints? 

  • Robin Nilsson's avatar
    Robin Nilsson
    Bronze Contributor

    Fields2015 Actually, I saved something I read about how to do this. Have never tried it, but maybe this can give you some hints? 

    • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
      ChrisWebbTech
      MVP
      Good find, that's basically what I was meaning by creating an app, that's a baseline side load one, but def. a good place to get started!
    • adam deltinger's avatar
      adam deltinger
      MVP
      Yeah, as the link and previous posters mentioned, you need to create a custom app in order to do this 🙂
    • Fields2015's avatar
      Fields2015
      Copper Contributor

      Hey Robin Nilsson,

       

      I followed the steps of the link you sent, and this is exactly what i wanted.

       

      Thank you,

      Fields

  • Rob Barker's avatar
    Rob Barker
    Iron Contributor

    Fields2015 

    Has anyone discovered a way to add a website to the Teams app bar? I want to link our corporate intranet, which is built on SharePoint.

    • AwsAyad's avatar
      AwsAyad
      Brass Contributor
      you can utilize Microsoft Viva Connection app in Teams to use your SharePoint base Intranet home page. once you customize the app, pin it to your Teams menu using a setup policy and you will have your users accessing your Intranet from Teams instead of going to https://<yourdomain>.sharepoint.com/ to do so.
      • AwsAyad ThereseSolimeno 

         

        Hi all, 

         

        The viva connections app can be utilized for the site which is designated the Home Site within the SPO setup. However, you can render any SPO site using the dev portal which contains app studio, or use the app studio app whilst it is around. In the web version of Teams the SPO site will render just with the URL however to get it to work in the Desktop you need to amend the manifest. 

         

        In terms of a site working through a custom app build, some sites work and some don't. For example WordPress sites work. Microsoft sites don't. This is because sites have settings which can prevent them rendering within IFrames, usually because the X-Frame-Option of those sites is set to Deny. 

         

        Hope that helps and answers your question

         

        Best, Chris 

    • Nathan007's avatar
      Nathan007
      Copper Contributor

      Rob Barker Let me know if you come across any solution. But for now we will need to create a custom app but it would be nice if Ms make the functionality for the sidebar. 

  • Hi Fields2015,

    Unfortunately, no way to do this currently - websites are only available through Tabs in the Channel.

    There is a uservoice open which Microsoft have confirmed as planned to customize the left navigation

    https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18536197-user-customizable-left-navigation

    However, it is not clear whether this also includes web sites. So I would recommend opening a new uservoice here and getting people to vote to push it up the agenda

    Hope that answers your question!

    Best, Chris

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