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How do I create a property I can use across sites connect to a hub?
I have several department sites, connected to a hub, on SharePoint Online.
I wish to create a property I can use on any of the lists in the different department sites which I can use to coordinate content display on the hub site from the department sites using something like thre HCWP.
I want to be able to set this property to anything I want, not just some pre-determined set of values.
How do I do this?
I've waded through so much documentation about managed properties, crawled properties, site columns, hub sites, content hubs, content types, term store and so much other stuff that I can't even remember.
Nothing I've tried has worked. The official documentation for current SharePoint Online explains almost nothing beyond the trivialities of creating pages and news. And for the vast majority of third party documentation and blogs out there, it's very difficult to know whether what's being referred to even applies to the current SharePoint version.
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Create a Site Column (Managed Metadata) and a Content Type in the Content Type Hub/Gallery. Use the site column to tag documents, ensuring that this column can be utilized across all SharePoint sites for filtering content in the Highlighted Content Web Part (HCWP).
Management can be automated by creating site columns and content types in the Hub site and referencing them in departmental sites, creating global properties with Hub site settings, and using PowerShell scripts or the Microsoft Graph API.
Sorry but there isn't enough information in your reply for it to be useful.
I've already tried creating site columns in the hub site, and it appears they are not usable in sites connected to the hub. Content Types might have some bearing here, but I want to create a column I can use in existing content types.
Googling for Sharepoint global properties yields a few mostly out-of-date articles that don't have a bearing on my use case. Global properties does not appear to be a feature of current Sharepoint.
