Today at Ignite 2017, we announced SharePoint hub sites, a new building block of the intranet, to bring together related sites to roll up news and activity, to simplify search, and to create cohesion...
Updated May 30, 2018
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I am still catching up on these hub sites...
When we design intranets for clients, we do have news/events, but there is a lot more static content on the page, such as custom web parts for the user to create their own shortcuts, employee spotlight, etc.
A few questions:
- Can the hub site template be modified to have static content web parts?
- Can the hub site have its own news artcles (from itself) also aggregating subsites news up to it as well?
- How techncially do these hub sites work?
- How are the content search web parts configured? Is content scoped to the associated sites and displayed using nice display templates?
- How is navigation kept consitant? Managed Navigation?
- How are logos synced? Just one image linked to all the sub sites using a feature on deployment?
- How are custom themes picked? Does the parent apply the same theme to children?
- Is there really any special magic here other than basic configuration that can be done by a user easily each time creating a new site (yea I know its a pain so glad this is being solved using hub sites)?
Just hoping to learn a bit more about these puppies. Or if anyone has a YouTube link to an Ignite video that gets down into the details, send it my way!
Thanks
Eric