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Communication Site not a template under "New Subsite" or SharePoint Admin
The new Communication site has reached us. It looks very promising, but I noticed that the only way to create one is from the SharePoint home page "Create a Site" menu. Once I have a Communication site, I'd expect to be able to create subsites under the main communication site that use the same template and are communication sites, but I can't right now (see screenshot). I'd also expect to be able to create them from the SharePoint admin page. It looks like it isn't a template option under either place. Is this intentional? Or should I expect it to appear these places too?
We also need the ability to create Communication sub-sites. It's what's stopping us from fully adopting them.
Mohammad Housaini what is your example scenario for needing communication sub-sites?
Warwick Ward Hi Warwick. Here is my situation where I would like to use a communication sub-site. We are developing an internal company portal. The HR department has a site, for content relevant to all employees. They also need to develop a set of modern site pages that are relevant to and only viewable by supervisors. This would best be served by a subsite, but they are unhappy with the difference in the look and feel between a communications site and a team site.
Mohammad Housaini Yep this is total BS. The Modern ui is nowhere near ready for production use.
- Bit harsh, all depends on particular use case, for the majority I feel modern is now ready and classic migrations should be of a priority
- All that is coming with the new SharePoint Admin center only.... though no idea when that is being rolled-out
- :-)...we might have clue about when the new SPO stuff could com: Ignite...but let's see
- I guess this is just "a design" question for now...with Communication Sites is happening the same thing we have with modern team sites: you can create then only as Site Collections from the SharePoint landing page...you can create subsites under a communication sites and user modern pages and WebParts to have a "similar" look & feel to what you have in a communication site
BTW - Thanks for asking I am also interested in the answer. - Greg
Can you create one using PnPPowershell and specifying the template 'SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0' as in New-PnPTenantSite -Url $siteUrl -Owner $siteOwner -StorageQuota $siteStorage -Lcid $siteLocale -ResourceQuota $siteResource -Template $siteTemplate -TimeZone $siteTime -Title $siteTitle
Where $siteTemplate = SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0
