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Error connecting to tenant root site with SharePoint Designer
When trying to connect to / open anything in the tenant root site collection, I'm getting an error 'Microsoft SharePoint Designer does not support editing non-SharePoint sites'. I can connect fin...
I've tried in my tenant and connecting to my root site works fine. What type of site is created at your tenant's root? SharePoint Designer is not supported for modern sites because of the NoScript setting as described in the article below:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/modern-experience-customizations-customize-sites
What do the settings look like if you browse to /_layouts/15/SharePointDesignerSettings.aspx ?
Hi Paul - it now works fine on my tenant, but not on the customer tenant.
On both, it is the default root site collection - so effectively a classic teamsite - but in both tenants I can successfully connect to a subsite in that root collection, and also to other site collections (which are modern, actually)
On both, it is the default root site collection - so effectively a classic teamsite - but in both tenants I can successfully connect to a subsite in that root collection, and also to other site collections (which are modern, actually)