SharePoint Document Library Integration

[Mike Valentine]

First, I want to say Amazing Job on the release of Microsoft Teams!

We just had our go-live for O365 this week after migrating from Google Apps.  I have been frantically looking for something to fill a gap that we have stumbled across that we were using on GApps that doesn't exist in O365.  Then along comes Teams and has promise to give us much more than plugging the gap that I have that is frustrating our users.

The Chat Bot told me that SharePoint Document Libraries (although you can add it as a tab in Teams) isn't quite ready.  (BTW, I love it when a Chat Bot actually answers the question that I ask it!!!!)  Having the abiltiy to link a document library from SharePoint into Teams will plug the missing feature that we relied on in Google Apps.  Do you have an ETA when this integration will be ready?  I would be very much willing to test this out with my user base.  This would, IMO, be a game changer on user acceptance of our O365 rollout.

Thanks!

[#2]

Yes, having the ability to link Sharepoint document libraries to Microsoft Teams is exactly what I'm looking for and what is missing for my organisation in Slack. This would be very helpful! 

[#3]

Hello Mike - I'm the Program Manager for files in Microsoft Teams. Good news - the ability to view files from an external SharePoint document library is available! Go to any channel in your team, press the + to the right of the tabs, and select the "SharePoint" option.

We've had some bugs with the feature reported that we're investigating. Please let me know if you encounter any or have feedback. Also, I'll ensure T-Bot is updated with the correct response. Thank you for trying Microsoft Teams!

[#4]

Hello Kyle. Thank you for getting back to me. I do believe that I am encountering a bug. I did additional testing today and here is what I have found. Some sites do indeed work and if I add a tab to a SharePoint library it does display properly. Most subsites however come up with a "View your SharePoint files here" message instead. I did test the Upload button and it is properly linking to the SharePoint library because the file does get uploaded properly it's just not creating the proper view into the library. It doesn't seem to be related to the type of site either. I have Wiki, Team, and Publishing subsites and there is no pattern that I can see on which libraries work and which don't.

[#5]

Hi Kyle,

I tried to add (pressing "+" in tab) Sharpoint site to channel both in Teams web and desktop apps. Both give me the same problem. If I select one from "Relevant sites" and click "Next", there's no further response. If I enter the URL from "Use a Sharepoint link", I get an error message saying "We couldn't find any Sharepoint site or a folder. Check the link and try again."

Teams desktop version: 0.6.00.30201 (64-bit); last updated on 11/3/16.

[#6]

Hi Kyle,

Is one of those bugs the situation where you try to add a Documents library that isn't the default 'Documents' one and it says that it works but it adds a bugged copy of the 'Documents' library instead?

Thanks,
Alan

[#7]

@Kyle Blevens Has anyone found a workaround or a reason why some SP libraries work with Teams and others don't? I have fired up Fiddler and looked at the calls to libraries that fail and libraries that work. The only thing that I can see is that on the ones that are failing there is no JSON returned from the API call to list the items in the library. The press on Teams has been crazy and I have about 20+ people asking daily when I am going to start rolling this out. If I cannot find a solution/workaround on this document library issue then I don't feel comfortable rolling this out to people.

[#8]

Alan, yes, not being able to add a non-default document library is one of the known issues.

[#9]

Based on the descriptions a few of you have provided it sounds like there are likely several bugs involved. I'll have a support engineer from our team reach out to you individually to collect logs and other information to assist in our debugging.

Thank you again for reporting the issues, and we greatly appreciate the assistance in identifying the root cause.

[#10]

Thanks Kyle, If this bug is fixed and the option to choose the columns to display in the integration is added, I can see this being huge.

[#11]

FWIW, I too am having problems with SharePoint in Teams. The error I receive is, "The Files are no longer available". I've seen elsewhere this may be related to a bug with libraries that have spaces in the path name.

I test almost every day so am intersted in knowing when this gets fixed so i can roll out Teams to my users.

Thanks

[#12]

Absolutely. I would like to be able to have a custom document library available in a channel in the event the collaboration is specific to content of a particular existing library. Seems it list the custom documetn library and adds without error but then its actually adding the default shared documents library. A true but that I'd like to see corrected.

[#13]

Hi, I've started using Teams and wanted to add my default root document library, but I get the message "These files are no longer available. Check to see if site is available and try again".

I've went through the add tab wizard > sharepoint > it even suggested my connected Office 365 Groups site > I select the Library > give it name > click save and done. Except, no files but the message above.

The Group uses the "German" locale, so the URL is something like https://tenantname.sharepoint.com/sites/o365groupname/Freigegebene%20Dokumente/ (I still don't get why Microsoft insists on changing default library names to german, instead of leaving them in english...) 

Any ideas?

[#14]

I have the same issue with .../workgroups/XYZ/Shared%20Documents/...

[#15]

Can you confirm that you have the current client version, 0.6.00.32301?

[#16]

Alan, this issue (adding non default library) has been fixed in the current build 0.6.00.32301. If you are still experiencing after updating to this build this please let us know.

[#17]

Where is the build you mentioned?

I have run updates and reinstalled only to be at Microsoft Teams Version 0.6.00.31001

[#18]

Same here.

Settings | About shows "You have Microsoft Teams Version 0.6.00.31001 (64-bit). It was last updated on 11/30/16."

[#19]

First of all, Kyle - thanks for bringing in the SharePoint document library integration already in the beginning of the preview.

As someone who is accustomed to finetuning the inner workings of a SharePoint library, I've got one question though: Is the support for different views within SharePoint Document Libraries and / or document metadata on the roadmap to be added to the SharePoint tab? Or do the users have to navigate to the actual SharePoint library view even in the future to achieve this?

[#20]

My guess is that users wil have to navigate to the actual SharePoint library and if you need to have this kind of customizations inside Teams, you will have to build it yourself