SKILLS & TRICKS
We know that renaming a Channel in Teams breaks the associated SharePoint link. It creates a new folder in SharePoint but when you access the files from Teams, it takes you back to the original folder. Confusing and messy!! However, I have a process to rename a Channel in Teams without breaking the link to SharePoint. Before I change things, I want to show how my current Team is setup. And the last part of the SharePoint URL: The steps below describe how to rename a Team Channel without breaking the SharePoint link associated with the channel. 1. In Teams, select the Channel to be renamed 2. Select “Edit this channel” 3. Rename it with some gibberish name, and click “Save” (example: From Football to Football-asdfghjk) 4. Select the renamed Channel again, and select “Delete this Channel” 5. Navigate to the associated SharePoint site, and select “Documents” 6. Select the folder associated with the Channel Name, and select “Rename” 7. Rename the folder and select “Save”. In my example I renamed it to “Soccer”. 8. Go back to Teams and create a Channel called “Soccer” That’s it! Here’s what it looks like in Teams and SharePoint Hope the above helps and this is the best way i could find to rename a channel without breaking SharePoint link.
16 Comments
Hugo Quintero
8/13/2020 10:09:48 am
Gracias Amigo!
Reply
Johannes Dissing
9/29/2020 11:21:28 am
Well it works. But still you deleted the original channel, so the Posts and Planner stuff is lost.
Reply
Dave
10/28/2020 10:19:09 am
Can you explain the purpose of renaming the original channel with a gibberish name before deleting? In my nests just deleting the channel without renaming seems to produce the same results.
Reply
Matt Whiting
1/7/2021 11:15:04 am
Thanks for this. Worked for me too!
Reply
miles loretta
3/30/2021 08:46:17 am
Unfortunately this work around no longer works. Microsoft has changed something that locks the channel name in SharePoint. now you have to rename the channel, delete and then create a new channel.
Reply
mon
7/20/2021 07:51:24 am
Seems to work for me. Thanks, the author, for the tip!
Reply
Vee
8/30/2021 04:28:29 pm
I wrote this post in my blog. You took not only my steps, but my images as well.
Reply
GS
8/30/2021 04:49:04 pm
This is word for word plagiarized from Pixie Vee's blog post. Give credit to the original creator.
Reply
Lucia Matlová
1/8/2022 01:15:51 pm
Thank you very much. Worked
Reply
Atul
6/9/2022 07:32:24 am
You deleting the channel. Does it preserve conversations of the channel?
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
February 2020
Categories
All
|