Links/attachments in chat
If you attach an item to a chat it will be saved in the files section of the channel. But if you are chatting about a document and you want to reference it you do not want to save it to the channel as it is already in another folder of the SP Site. To create a copy in the channel does not make sense as you are creating duplicates. a link would be the solution.
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This feature is still in the works. No additional details are available at this time.
-Warren
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Chris Johnston
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Checking in. We're running into an issue where users are uploading copies of their files instead of links, and wondering why they arent seeing edits back in their main documents
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Agnes
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Hi... has there been any progress of the solution to this request?
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Gerald Bauer
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Erm...This feature is already finished: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16938673-reuse-existing-file-in-chat
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Anonymous
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In chat I am missing an easy way to crate a link to a file.
Linking to file should be simple where the link-text is the filename.
Today you first need to "copy link to file" and then press CTRL-K (for link) - and paste the link in URL, but you manual have to put in the filename. It is not possible to copy it from the link as it contains %20 for spaces.
It would be even better if the link is technically implemented as an object with uniq ID so any update to filename or url will be reflected
(I wunder why this is not standard now-a-days - I can remember it was standard in IBM-OS2 in the last century:-)) -
Anonymous
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update?
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Richard Adam Boettcher commented
Internally, our company is comparing MS Teams with Slack to be able to easily link share-point sites/one-drive/channels and mention files within the MS suite of products and remove cross documentation duplication would be great!
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Status?
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Mateusz
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Can anyone update the status? Currently we have "Working on it" for last 8 mothns.
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Anonymous
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Any progress? Its the one major we still use Asana instead of Teams
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Robin Dieker MSFT
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Hey Warren,
any update on this? Please contact me via my V-Dash.All the best
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Anonymous
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I'm trying to roll out Teams across our workplace and have just stumbled upon this issue after noticing that a shared file didn't link in a chat group. Rather annoying. Any update?
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David
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Any updates? Six months later and lots of silly gifs all over the place.
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Turd Ferguson
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There needs to be the ability to turn this feature off and/or filter certain file types from being 'saved' to the Files section when posting in chat; I constantly have to clear out all the silly gifs and memes and things that people link - and telling them not to do that isn't the answer - we need the technology to work for us not the other way around.
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Anonymous
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It should be possible to link to files in other SharePoint sites within the same tenant. If you fore example have site for document that are relevant for all in the firm, but a team want to link to it so they easily can discuss the contents. Now it will make a copy in the channel, therefore the team might be missing when the document is updated.
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Monte Achenbach
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At a minimum, if Teams is supposed to be a collaboration tool, Sharepoint should be an attachment option in Chat. Now you have only OneDrive (personal files) and Upload from Computer as options? Not seamless or intuitive...
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BIQAS
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That's a shame 2 years and still working on it!!!!
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Anonymous
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I agree. Why are we making ‘copies’ of files in ‘teams’ if we’re trying to collaborate? I have a file in a sub folder generated and saved on a sharepoint site and when I attach the file, it makes a copy and stores it on the root directory....???? What a mess. Surely I must be doing something wrong...
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Paul
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I have just discovered this as well - I would like to link a file on our server with a path url
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[Deleted User]
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+1 to "mention" (link to) a document that is already sitting in a standalone tab, although we understand you love creating duplicates with OneDrive track record (:
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Werner Faber
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Links occur on MS Teams, but we haven't figgured out why.
This happens without any comment, the user who causes them doesn't even notice it at first.
Would be nice to know under what circumstance Teams will add a link to a document stored in the team as a new conversation to that specific team.
I know one can add a link intentionally, but then one has to acompany the conversation with a comment.
This does not occur with the entries we are seeing.
It almost looks like Teams logs that user X has altered the linked document, but not all changes cause the link addition to occur. So this is not consistent.