{"id":50645,"date":"2023-08-11T09:07:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/?p=50645"},"modified":"2023-08-11T09:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:07:29","slug":"add-a-link-to-a-sharepoint-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/blog\/add-a-link-to-a-sharepoint-library\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add a Link to a SharePoint Document Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you looking to add a link to your SharePoint Document Library? If so, you&#8217;re in the right place! You can add a link to an item outside the document library when using SharePoint on Microsoft 365 or SharePoint Server 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/blog\/sharepoint-document-library\/\">Document libraries<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are used to store each file handled by <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/blog\/how-to-create-a-sharepoint-site\/\">SharePoint sites<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Users can add links to files, folders, documents, sites, and external sites to their SharePoint Library. SharePoint then allows users to set unique URLs for each of these files to share documents with users outside your SharePoint site.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Down below, we\u2019ll show you how to add a link to a SharePoint library.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Add_a_Link_to_a_Document_Library_in_SharePoint\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Add a Link to a Document Library in SharePoint<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. To add a link, visit the document library where it is located.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-50720\" src=\"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/To-add-a-link-visit-the-document-library.jpg\" alt=\"To add a link visit the document library\" width=\"326\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Select New from the top left menu, then choose Link.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-50724\" src=\"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Select-new-from-top-left-menu.jpg\" alt=\"Select new from top left menu\" width=\"150\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Select-new-from-top-left-menu.jpg 241w, https:\/\/cirahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Select-new-from-top-left-menu-165x300.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter the link in the Create link to dialog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-50728\" src=\"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Enter-the-link-in-the-create-a-link.jpg\" alt=\"Enter the link in the create a link\" width=\"319\" height=\"126\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note that a link you add to the SharePoint library doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be a file or folder link. It can also be a website link.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>4. The File name field displays after you enter the link in the \u201cCreate link to\u201d dialog. Enter a name for the link in the \u201cFile name\u201d field, then click Create.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-50732\" src=\"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Enter-a-name-for-the-link-in-file-name-field.jpg\" alt=\"Enter a name for the link in file name field\" width=\"278\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Enter-a-name-for-the-link-in-file-name-field.jpg 433w, https:\/\/cirahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Enter-a-name-for-the-link-in-file-name-field-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recommended reading: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/blog\/create-a-folder-in-sharepoint\/\">How to Share a File in SharePoint<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"To_Conclude\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To Conclude<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When trying to add links to a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/blog\/create-a-sharepoint-document-library\/\">SharePoint Document Library<\/a><\/strong>, you should be aware of a few limitations of this feature. With the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/blog\/what-is-sharepoint-and-what-is-it-used-for\/\">Classic SharePoint<\/a><\/strong> Experience, this feature is not available. This feature is also unavailable in SharePoint Server 2016 or prior versions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main benefit of sharing a link to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ww\/microsoft-365\/sharepoint\/collaboration\">SharePoint<\/a><\/strong> is that it prevents you from repeatedly uploading the same file to your SharePoint environment.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To use this feature, you must know how to obtain a file URL, SharePoint site, or document folder URL.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking to add a link to your SharePoint Document Library? If so, you&#8217;re in the right place! You can add a link to an item outside the document library when using SharePoint on Microsoft 365 or SharePoint Server 2019.\u00a0 Document libraries are used to store each file handled by SharePoint sites.\u00a0 Users can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":50740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page-cirahub.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[374],"class_list":["post-50645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authors":[{"term_id":374,"user_id":9,"is_guest":0,"slug":"jon-harris","display_name":"jlh@ciraapps.com","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c8f87026173c8bb1e783c78eac6f1b77bc2bc6d4861a18f530c9baa52d7b425e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50645"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50748,"href":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50645\/revisions\/50748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50645"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cirahub.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=50645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}