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Changing the Title, Description, and Navigation of Your SharePoint 2016 App

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2016-10-12 13:50:59
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The General Settings page for SharePoint 2016 apps is a simple, self-descriptive settings page. Most of these options are what you configure when you first create the Library or List app, including whether the app appears on the Quick Launch navigation.

Changing the title does not change the web address (URL) of the app. If having the title match the URL is important, or less confusing to your team, consider re-creating a new app with the desired title and deleting the old one. Of course, this works better early in the process, before you upload documents or create apps!

If you already have many items in your app, you can copy documents from one Library app to another, or export an existing List app to Excel and re-import into a new one. However, this shouldn't be taken lightly. Some column configuration settings, such as a Choice column, need to be re-created along with many other app settings. If you’re unsure what you want to name an app when you create it, take some time to consider your terminology before creating the app.

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About the book author:

Ken Withee works for Microsoft and is part of the Azure team. Previously, he was a SharePoint consultant, and he has authored several books on Microsoft products.

Rosemarie Withee is the president of Portal Integrators and founder of Scrum Now. Rosemarie is the author of Microsoft Teams For Dummies and other Dummies titles.