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Nigel_Price9911's avatar
Nigel_Price9911
Iron Contributor
Apr 20, 2018

Hub Sites, Team Sites and Site Columns

Hi 

 

I have created a Hub Site.

 

I have created a Team Site.

 

I have registered the Team Site with the Hub Site.

 

I have created a series of site columns with the Hub Site.

 

However, the Site Columns have not flowed down from the Hub Site to the Team Site just like site collections / sites and SubSites. ?

 

Should they ?  If they, then what have I not done ?

 

Thanks

 

Nigel

  • Jenny Bruce's avatar
    Jenny Bruce
    Iron Contributor

    Hi Nigel_Price9911 

    You need to make sure you create site designs  that include things like your content types and site columns.  Generally you incorporate the site design when the site is first created/provisioned.  However, you should be able to apply site designs after the event via the Site designs option under settings

    i.e. choose Settings (cog icon) > Site designs. 

    If a site design has been applied it should be listed in this area.  If not, choose the 'available site designs' link, where you will find a drop down control with a list of your available site designs that you can choose to apply.  Note if you haven't created any site designs your list will probably be empty.

    For more information see the documentation article - SharePoint site design and site script overview

    Fabian Ackeret has also written a blog post SharePoint Modern Content Type and Term store 

    that you might find of interest

     

    • Carl_Williams's avatar
      Carl_Williams
      Iron Contributor
      Nope. No "Site Designs" label in my settings icon! Surprise!!! Another msft gotcha. You can create site columns galore but spend another week trying to figure out how to get them to propagate to other sites.
      It's not worth the hassle. I'll just recreate it new like wayyyy back in 2003. Almost 20 years later and this is still a point of contention.
  • Chad Woodward's avatar
    Chad Woodward
    Brass Contributor
    Good luck. Modern SP is about tweeting and connecting to Facebook via Flow, not document management.
  • Dean_Gross's avatar
    Dean_Gross
    Silver Contributor

    These new Hub sites, have nothing to do with the similarly named Content Type Hub sites (its just another example of naming challenges) which is the only out-of-the-box way to get site columns copied to multiple site collections. ssquires has stated that they are working on improving the Content Type publishing story and how that fits into these new Hub sites remains to be seen. 

      • Susan_Hanley's avatar
        Susan_Hanley
        MVP

        That's really a question for Microsoft, but I know that the fantastic team working on hub sites is aware of this outcome as something that is desired for hub sites. Microsoft has been very clear that what has been released so far is just a start so I know we can expect more features.




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