How to Open Local Files from Teams Tab App?

Question

Looking to create a Teams Tab App which will list key resources to the users. Most resources are files (most excel) stored on a local network drive.

Attempting to open the file via a 'file://' link yields the error:

Not allowed to load local resource: file://......  

Looking for advice on how this could be accomplished, any direction would be appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi @GermanPearls

The Teams Files tab is only for SharePoint folders (the back end of Teams file structure). You cannot open local folders/files in Microsoft Teams:

File storage in Teams

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/file-storage-in-teams-df5cc0a5-d1bb-414c-8870-46c6eb76686a

I would recommend you migrate those shared resources to Teams Files (which is SharePoint) so everyone can share resources.

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