File path to links
When users copy/paste a link to a local folder on a server in Team, that link currently comes through as text. This causes other users to have to copy/paste the link into a new file explorer address bar. What I would like Teams to do is convert this path into a hyperlink automatically, so they only need to click on the link to open the local folder.
For example, if I have a server share mapped to S:\, with the folder "FolderName" inside of it, and I would like to share the contents of this folder with another employee. I would copy the path "S:\FolderName", and send it to that employee. In the current setup, they would copy "S:\FolderName", open a file explorer, click into the address bar, delete what is in there, then paste and hit enter. If this were changed to a hyperlink, all of those steps would go away. They would simply need to click the link, file explorer would open to that path and we'd be done.
This is a repeated feature request I am getting from my coworkers. Thanks!
Dave Carlson
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29 comments
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Barbara Seiler
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not only server-links. also telephone-links like: tel:*** and maillinks like mail:***@yyy.com. if you copy-paste them, they work in teams, but if you want to change dem in teams, it is not allowd.
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Joshua
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Super important - we do not have time to upload everything to Sharepoint/OneDrive
We have many files on internal servers we just need to link in a channel -
Romek
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it's super important
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Carl Chambers
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going to need some more votes to get this seen...top suggestions have 10,000+ votes and at the time of this post, we are at 214. Doesn't mean it won't get implemented, but it is less likely if MS doesn't see it. /shrug
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Tamara Sorell
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I will add my voice to this. I will probably continue to use Outlook instead of Team messaging for many communications without this capability. The link sharing modality needs to include a mechanism for indicating what the full path is even if there are spaces. For example, you can use "<" and ">" to encircle a path in Outlook to convert it to a clickable link even if there are spaces.
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Todd Merkle
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Someone from Microsoft please enable this. This would be a huge improvement
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LaVonne Higgins
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I have several spreadsheets posted in one of my Teams environments.
We don't seem to be able to get all of the links to the tabs in our spreadsheets to work.
This appears to be random, as it works in some of the tabs, but not others.
And if we open the spreadsheet in Desktop Apps, it seems to work fine.
Are we missing something? Do we need to rewrite our link formulas?
What is the missing ingredient here?
Can you provide some information about this, please?
We would like all of them to work 100% of the time for every team member.
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Anonymous
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Quite frustrating that this doesn't work, needs sorting.
My links are always to the full network "\\" path (i.e. NO "S:\" mapped letters which may be different for each user).
But this still doesn't work! All I get is this "Invalid Link" error (attached).
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russ
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Important feature. Not sure how it was overlooked.
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Jon Krombein
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This is a REQUIRED feature. The whole "upload a file to teams and then share it" method is completely useless. We need to be able to share links to "live" folders and documents in our file system.
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Terence Ngan
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Very important feature
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David Pitcher
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Someone from Microsoft please enable this. This would be a huge improvement
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Brian Fedderson
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It worked in Skype for Business and would be helpful to include in Teams. We have 4000 in our company and I believe many others would like this feature.
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Chris
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Super important
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LD
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it is super important to have something like this
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S
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This is super important. Please enable!!
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Anonymous
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Need this functionality implemented as soon as possible!
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Shawnna
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Please make server paths clickable, thank you.
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Anonymous
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Why in the world would a link not be a possibility in Teams? Who wants to copy/paste a path each time? All other Microsoft products have this capability. Having it NOT work in Teams seems asinine! Please make links available.
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Andy Dively
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This is a very necessary feature for Teams to work with my users' work flows. All of my other Microsoft products provide this necessary feature and Teams should as well.
