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General folder automatically created
Hi AI_birder ,
Afraid there is nothing we can do about that. By default a folder is created in the Standard "Documents" library in the SharePoint site for each channel.
For formal document management I don't use the "Documents" library I create other document libraries to save it getting clogged up with any document or image that gets attached to a Team chat.
Hope that helps
Andy
Gau You can avoid this by creating multiple "libraries"rather than folders inside a library. i.e. a library called HR that is then able to be linked directly to the top level of files in an HR Teams site. It's a mess, I know, cause you can't delete General which is in a totally different location. Need to hammer on MSFT at Ignite about this POS design. Come on MSFT, I know your Dev teams are hearing about this from the corporate 1000 IT people. Fix this please. We need to create a Team from a Library and have the folders inside the library synced to Teams automatically. It can't be that hard. Or am I missing some undocumented feature in SharePoint or Teams Powershell commands (another problematic tool that is not well documented).
Does it involve redirecting the 'Files' button? Or is it always going to be within the Documents folder?
As I have tried, once you create the new Document library (i.e. HR INTERNAL) you then go into Teams and link it there. I have done this and it did work. The General folder in this example is still linked to a master Document library, but it doesn't need to be. Add a Tab at the Top for the new Library (REVIEWS) by choosing the SHAREPOINT app. It's shown in the images attached. Your users then open the library they need. This makes more sense actually from a security perspective, though the whole design of this is a mess. There should be a clear pointer in Teams to the top level FOLDER or LIBRARY, either one. But I'm sure there was some functional issue that forced the Teams product group to do it this way. I'll do a second way of doing this by creating the Team inside the proper Library to begin with and show that to you as well.
