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We regret to inform you that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue Link Spotter. We appreciate your support and remain committed to providing innovative tools to meet your evolving needs. Thank you!

It is assumed that Link Spotter has already been added to the channel. Otherwise first follow the instructions under Add Link Spotter to a Team Channel.

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Within the link list several actions are available per link, provided via respective icons:

Image 1: Link actions

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Within the list of links you find several action buttons on the right side. On hover a tooltip with the corresponding description appears.

On small screens a mobile menu is shown

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, clicking on it will show a bottom menu.

Go to website

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Image 32: “Go to website” button (click to enlarge)

The “Go to website” action is used to open the link in your browser. Click on the “Go to website” icon to open the link in a new tab of your OS default browser.

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Good to know

  • To open a link you can also click on the link itself (regardless of the link portion: thumbnail image, link title, excerpt or URL).

  • A link pointing to a Teams message will be opened within MS Teams instead of the default browser.

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Image 4: Small screen “Go to website” button

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Image 53: “Copy link” button (click to enlarge)

The “Copy link” action transfers the current link URL to your clipboard. Click on the “Copy link” icon to copy the link URL to the clipboard of your device. Use it e.g.

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to share the link with someone

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Navigate to Teams Conversation

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Image 74: “Go to message“ button (click to enlarge)

The “Go to message” actions forwards you to the origin message of this link. Click on the “Go to message” icon to navigate to the original MS Teams message where the link is contained.

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