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Create HUB site
Once you registered for hubsite please associate and join sites to hub by following below
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/features/hub-site/create-hub-site-with-powershell
Then you can build a consistent navigation theme on top which associates all sites to top navigation and similar structure will appear on all associated sites.
You can build a news roll up which rolls up content from all sites on the hub.
Basically you have to leverage all modern webparts and design the hubsite to get below look and feel.
We have a dev/test tenant which is set to "first release" channel and I'm able to create and use hub sites there. In our production tenant, I'm seeing the same behavior as you. I can register a site as a hub site, but when I go to the site itself, there is no global nav at the top, nor is the "Hub site" option in the cog/gear menu. I ran the 'register-spohubsite' command again and got a message that the site is already a hub. I'm assuming that the necessary change was made to the site, but the GUI elements just aren't in our prod tenant yet.
i am confused as to what can be done on which tenants
- To be fair as Juan says hub sites are not yet in production only Targeted Release. Admins need to check over the complete message in the Message Center which typically indicates rollout schedule. In addition Microsoft folk such as Andy Haon for SharePoint flag the percentage rolled out to production on Twitter. This community frequently highlight to each other when features rollout and the Office 365 roadmap provides the long view. These are all resources which are easily accessible. We can only hope that one day we all get our ‘personalised’ Message Center. Until then some detective work is required.
thanks for all.
I my first post i asked another question and i don't see reply about this :
Microsoft show this screen for HUB site. This site template will be available by default in O365 ?
thanks
Eric LE CORRE, I don't think that's a particular template. It looks like a communication site with the Hub-award web parts added.
On a slightly different topic, as I've been documenting this function and talking to people about it, I've begun referring to the "child" sites (which really aren't children of the hub) as "Spoke" sites. Does MS have an official term for them (other than Hub-connected sites) that we could/should be using?
Via the support https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/features/hub-site/create-hub-site-with-powershell, it seems as though you need to associate sites with the Hub Site in order for the changes to take place. I'd go ahead and take the next step to see if this changes anything.
- I've done all that. I believe the issue I'm seeing is explained by the fact that the feature is not in GA yet. I was surprised to see the Powershell cmdlets executing successfully and hope that means the back end components are in place and the GUI bits will be there soon.
- Hub sites are not supposed to be in production yet. Check the Q & A section in the blog announcement: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/Organize-your-intranet-with-SharePoint-hub-sites/ba-p/174081
"SharePoint hub sites will begin to roll out to Targeted Release customers starting late March 2018 and will be completed within 1 month. We are then targeting early May 2018 for complete worldwide rollout. You can track release progress on the public Office 365 Roadmap; note this link is filtered on “SharePoint” items."
