Sharepoint quick links

Question

I have a sharepoint site that's linked with a Team. I am exploring using sharepoint to house all of our documents in a cleaner way. Document tracking is becoming difficult with the various chats, teams, etc. On the home page, I want to set up a quick links section that links 2 notebooks. The notebooks are stored in the teams file tab, so I trying to link it there, which was easy enough to do. I find the notebook, get it to link, save and republish, the click on it and it works. The problem is clicking on it a second time. It seems every time I set it up it works once then the link goes dead. I've tried deleting it, re-adding it, deleting it, waiting a couple days and retrying but I seem to run into the same problem every time. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Answer 1

It works! Yes, it is the web part quick links I was having difficulty with. So what I was doing was clicking on site -> Documents -> Channel Name -> specific notebook, then selecting insert. This would only work once. When I do it the way you mentioned, I get an error that it couldn't verify link. I assumed this meant it wouldn't work and proceeded troubleshooting in different ways not noticing that the "insert" button lit up at the bottom with the link. Once I clicked insert, it works fine! Thank you! I'm not sure why it cannot verify the error but either way it is doing what I want so I am happy!

Thank you again so much for your help!

Answer 2

Hi,

Thank you for posting back and sharing the good news with us. Very glad to know it works when you try my suggestions.

Welcome to post a new thread in our forum at your convenience if you encounter any issues next time, we will continue trying best to help you.

Hope you have a nice day!

Best Regards,

Tina

Answer 3

Hi,

Thank you for sharing the experience with us.

I went through your post carefully. It seems like you set up a Quick links web part on the home page of SharePoint site which is connected to a team in Teams. The Quick links web part links 2 notebooks created in the team. The issue is that the link doesn't work when you click it for the second time.

To narrow down the issue and for troubleshooting, could you please confirm information below?

1.May I know how do you set up notebooks link in the Quick links web part?

By firstly going to the Files tab in teams, find the notebook, select it and click "Copy link", copy the link from SharePoint tab. Then go to the site home page, edit the page and add a Quick links web part,  click Add link, choose "From a link" and enter the copied link?

When I use these steps to test from my side, it works fine when I go to click on the link for the second time.

If you use different steps, please let me know.

2.Does same issue happen when you click on the notebooks link from different browsers? (Edge, Chrome, Firefox)

3.Does the issue only happen to the specific 2 notebooks? What about if you try other notebooks from Files tab?

4.If you try a different team and set up links to notebooks on the related site's home page, does issue still happen?

5.You mentioned "The notebooks are stored in the teams file tab", are the notebooks created by Files tab>click New>choose OneNote notebook?

Thanks for your patience and effort. Have a nice day and stay safe!

Best Regards,

Tina