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Make rename in Teams reflect name changes in Sharepoint?

When I rename a folder in the Teams app, the underlying folder is not renamed in sharepoint. This is most confusing.

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  • Star D. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Anonymous,
    I haven't attempted it yet. I admit I am a bit less interested in the *seemingly* easier fix of changing the name of a subfolder in a SharePoint Online document library (i.e, a standard channel) than in changing the name of a SharePoint Online site collection (i.e., a private channel, or the entire Team being renamed)

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Star D, I tried both and neither is working. Are you seeing this work in your tenant?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The SharePoint team snuck this text into their monthly roadmap update: "FIXED | Rename a channel in a Teams team and gets updated properly in the corresponding SharePoint folder". See: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/sharepoint-roadmap-pitstop-march-2021/ba-p/2245785.

    However, it's still not fixed for me after testing in several tenants (early and standard releases). Can anyone get this to work properly in their tenant?

  • Martina Unger commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In terms of e.g. IS0 9001:2015 "Quality Management Systems" Document Control and clear trustful traceability is a requirement.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This issue causes other problems within Teams. With a renamed channel, the SharePoint folder retains the original name, and "Files" tab in the renamed channel continues to reference the previous folder. Now it's possible to create another Teams channel and name it the same as the previous channel (before the rename), which uses the existing folder in SharePoint for file storage. This is a problem because the same files now appear in two different channels, and editing/deleting applies to "both" channels. Users expect edits and deletions to only affect one channel. When there are two channels pointing to the same file folder, this edits/deletes files in "both locations" because they're the same file(s).

    Renaming the folder in SharePoint *breaks* the linkage with the Teams site - so the files disappear in the Teams channel. Then SharePoint automatically re-creates the previous folder name and includes the files BUT Teams oddly can't see those files. It shows a blank slate in the Files tab.

    Because channels can't be re-created with the same name (except in the instance of a renamed channel detailed previously), users have almost no ability to fix this other than coming up with an entirely new naming scheme that doesn't fit their business.

    This is seriously broken.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I named a channel with square brackets [], this causes the SharePoint folder to also be named with square brackets. We cannot save files directly to the SharePoint folder now, it can only be uploaded or new MS office files created on the SharePoint itself. Thus, i need to be able to rename the SharePoint folder associated to the Channel!

  • Andreas commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It is now been 21 months since Admin stated his "Quick update".
    Anybody but me think it is time for another update now?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Very frustrating. This is a site that should help with organisation but this bug makes things more confusing

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    4 years later...still waiting for a fix. As a software developer, I know this is not complicated, yet it is a big deal for users. Come on, Microsoft! Easy win, here!

  • Ahmad commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi, so you guys have had over 4 years to work on this simple issue. Do you plan on every fixing this?

    Or should customers continue to pay for a software/services that are riddled with bugs and issues?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi, we have an issue as we renamed a channel in Teams where the files inside the channel still point to the old channel name so the files don't appear now in teams under the new channel name.
    We can still see the files in office.com under the new name but can no longer see them in Teams.

    I love teams, but it is problematic if we can't change names....and have a way to fix links that break between Teams and Sharepoint....Please don't ask us to never change channel names or not to move files around - we need to have ways of combining channels and a good archiving solution also please
    Many thanks
    Pru

  • Roberto commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is currently the biggest SharePoint issue !
    Please fix it as soon as possible because this make impossible to make work Teams and SharePont togheter

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