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Cannot create sub site from Modern Team site
Created a modern team site and attempting to create a sub site under that. The create sub site button under site contents is not available for some reason. Anyone know why? If I go to Classic experience from the site contents page the new sub site link shows up, but we want it to show in the modern experience.
There is a setting in the SharePoint Admin center > Settings for subsite creation to be disabled. Maybe that is set to "Hide" for your tenant.
Subsite Creation
Control whether site owners can create a subsite in a site that includes an Office 365 group. This setting determines whether the option to create a subsite is available on the Site contents page when users click New.
There is a setting in the SharePoint Admin center > Settings for subsite creation to be disabled. Maybe that is set to "Hide" for your tenant.
Subsite Creation
Control whether site owners can create a subsite in a site that includes an Office 365 group. This setting determines whether the option to create a subsite is available on the Site contents page when users click New.
I have that checked and still can't add subsites. Any other reason that you why this would be happening?
Thanks for your time.
I have a thread going about creating Modern subsites here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Modern-subsites/m-p/118856#M10623 .
That said, in my Modern sites, if I click the "New" button on the Site Contents page, it shows "Subsite" as one of the options. Do you not have that?
Mary
- I have the option too...in regards to Christopher comments, while it's true Microsoft seems to favor site collections vs subsites, just remember that the decision of what approach follow should be based on how you envision your Information Architecture. To all my customers I'm proposing to create site collections when we talk about departments or divisions but in some cases you might need to create subsites under your departments or divisions and doing so it's not wrong
- And to me, when I see the uncertainty in their(Microsoft) body language etc. when talking about it, I'd rather recommend not too unless necessary to save headache's down the road. Just my opinion. Sometimes your right to get something to work a certain way it might not be an option. They will work, no doubt, but you may not get new features with modern UI future they are developing for. SO that said, if your ok with knowing your sub sites might not get future features, then I suppose it's ok :p.
Hi Christopher,
Thanks for the update, could you please provide a supporting document URL to check it further.
Thanks in advance! :)
- To my knowledge Microsoft hasn't posted official guidance on the subject yet. This was bantar and discussion from Ignite last year during some of the SHarePoint sessions/roadmap discussion etc. If you go to Youtube and watch some of the SharePoint related sessions you could probably pickup on some of those talks.
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Thanks for the reply. Could you elaborate ?
- Maybe someone else here has some sessions or hard proof, but everytime I turned around, people at Ignite and others were asking about sub sites and Microsoft basically looks down apon them, it's not the direction they want you to go, it's using Comm sites, group sites, etc. all Site collections within themselves going forward in planning etc. and not to use big nested subsites.
This is why they are designing the whole Hub sites feature to bring site collections into a hub similar to sub sites.
