Please let me drag Outlook attachments into SharePoint
Something I find myself wanting to do pretty frequently is storing an email attachment somewhere into SharePoint or OneDrive for Business. I want to simply drag the attachment from Outlook directly into SharePoint or OneDrive in the browser. Alas, I cannot. I am forced to save the attachment somewhere (my Desktop, most likely) then either drag+dropping it into SharePoint/OneDrive or using the upload function in SharePoint/OneDrive to get it uploaded.
It should be easier than that. Microsoft, please consider adding this functionality to get even more user-friendly integration between your suite of products.
Matt Wade
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Thank you for everyone who has been providing feedback on this thread. There is a variety of work happening to make it easier for people to save to/from OneDrive and SharePoint. There are no specifics and ETA’s to share at this point.
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Anonymous
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it's so silly that Microsoft can't fix their own product and allow options to direct drag and drop emails to IE browser .
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Anonymous
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@Steve
Are you able to elaborate on connecting the library to Outlook? Is it possible to do this, or are you suggesting it as an enhancement?
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Lars Kongshaug
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Our solution to this problem is quite simple, we have a desktop application called Invo Move.
Invo Move is integrated with MS SharePoint / Office 365 and simplifies search for business information across and storing e-mails and attachments through drag and drop functionality. Invo Move offers the user full access to MS SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive for Business directly from Outlook.
For more information please attend our free webinar (in Norwegian) Wednesday the 18th of September.
https://invo.no/en/webinar/work-smarter-and-more-efficiently-with-invo-move-in-outlook/
You can also find more information in English here:
https://invo.no/en/solutions/invo-move/
Don’t hesitate to contact us for a free demo.
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Steve
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This works a treat in Google Chrome. Just need to connect the library to outlook first.
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Werner Sevenster
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This is now available via the latest version of Google Chrome.
Test it out guys, attachments and emails can now be transferred into SharePoint.
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DW
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My end users keep asking for this functionality., Please help me make them happy!
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Anonymous
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Just following up on the Admin post from May 14 - is there any further information or update on the work to make it easier to save from Outlook to SharePoint?
I’m in Targeted Release, and occasionally see a SharePoint icon appear in my Outlook ribbon. The button is inactive, and comes and goes. I can’t find any information about this - is it an upcoming feature?
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Trevor Bramwell
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I use OnePlaceMail's Save To SharePoint Add-In. Superb, lets you choose SharePoint site, library, folder and add metadata to the email or attachment. Should be core functionality.
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Adrian
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I see that you can now "upload" an email attachment directly to document library, but when you click the site name the file goes automatically without letting you choose which folder to put it in. It also gets uploaded with a bizarre name and gives you no option to choose the file name. You then have to find it in sharepoint and rename it. Almost there! Please fine tune the process!!
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Anonymous
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I'm not interested in 3rd party apps to do what should be core functionality.
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Paul de Jong | SLIM Applications
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Looks like this problem has been addressed by browser vendors. Edge and the latest Chrome (version 76) support drag and drop of emails and/or email attachments from Outlook directly to SharePoint. There is no need to first save the emails on your desktop and then upload them. The emails are uploaded as msg files.
If you require advanced functionality like extracting email metadata such as Subject, From, Sent date, ... or set custom metadata you will need additional tools (e.g. SLIM Companion Explorer).
Paul
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Anonymous
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Just in case it helps I've been using OutlookFileDrag add-in to do this, it works very well.
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Anonymous
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Microsoft are adding this functionality to Chrome. No ETA though.
https://appuals.com/drag-and-drop-support-added-to-chrome-for-outlook-attachments/
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John
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You could do this via Flow, create a flow to pickup emails in a folder in your Outlook and save to Sharepoint. :)
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Dennis
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Please also add this function to Outlook mobile app too!
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Jihong
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Strongly agree it. Cloud solution should save total storage, but now I may make copies in both cloud and my local. it is a waste now.
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Anonymous
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I'm not interested in 3rd party apps to do what should be core functionality.
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Rob
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Possible solution: Outlook2Web. I was just researching drag and dropping attachments from Outlook to a webapp. I came across this post and another program. The program is Outlook2Web and coan be found at www.outlook2web.com. I downloaded the trial and it worked for me. Granted this would not be a free solution, but it might help some.
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Anonymous
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Can you at least tell us why you don't want to address this issue? When novice computer users intuitively expect to be able to drag and drop attachments from outlook to SharePoint, you know it is a major UX design problem.
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Anonymous
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This feature is broken in the new Microsoft Edge Version 74.1.96.24 (Official build) dev (64-bit) (Chromium)
