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With Microsoft Teams gradually replacing SharePoint as a center for team collaboration, it is important to enable users to work with documents effectively.

When using Microsoft Teams, the end-user is always working in the context of the channel, essentially creating a silo. The experience is great when you are a member of couple teams with a few channels but quickly degrades to unmanageable, when gaining access to more channels and teams. Accessing documents is even more challenging, as you have to switch to the Files tab within the channel.

Navigator provides the following document-centric capabilities in Microsoft Teams:

• A single place to view/navigate documents across channels, teams, and SharePoint sites.
• Showcase new/updated documents across teams/channels/SharePoint.
• Custom dashboards aggregating across a particular selection of teams/channels/sites.
• Increased data/document discoverability.
• Taxonomy-driven navigation across documents.

We have created a new Microsoft Teams / SharePoint app enabling users with the following capabilities:

• Quickly aggregate documents across selected teams, channels, and sites, effectively enabling custom "themed" dashboards (i.e., IT dashboard, HR dashboard, "Project X" dashboard, etc.)
• Group data by teams, channels, folders, sites, contributors, managed metadata, and more.
• Immediately see new/updated documents and team contributions.
• Bring data from different Microsoft Teams and SharePoint sites together on one screen.
• Easily discover and navigate through documents across different repositories.
• Search and refine aggregated data.

As an SharePoint Framework app, it works consistently in both Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, providing the same experience on the Team site home page and Microsoft Teams tab.