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Modern - all or nothing?
RobOK, you are correct that the default search in a Communication site is only within the site. You can then switch to everything. The Hub site that will come next year will solve this issue. From a Hub site you the search default will be through all connected sites.
The Hub site will also solve part of your Navigation issue. It will provide a shared top navigation for all connected sites. Default position of the current navigation of a modern teamsite will stay on the left.
Structural navigation will not be available though. The key word here is: performance. So you will have to manually create your Navigational nodes.
Search from a modern site is Microsoft Graph-driven. That simply is very different from classic SharePoint search. If you have highly structured content with lots of content types and heavily used meta deta, than Modern Search will not be very helpful.
You're right. From the other hand - I would use modern for multiple docs downloading (missing in classic) and if I want to check-in/out multiple docs I would just switch to classic mode and back. But the problem is that there is something missing in modern design that has much more impact. That is no SharePoint Search webparts - since we strongly utilize search we will stay with classic as long as this feature won't be covered in modern design.
Anyway from my point of view - modern design is still a preview but going in very good direction. I could even say we are preparing for migration in some way because every new webpart we've made is developed in SPFx that works on modern AND classic design.
I hope that in 6-12 months we could migrate to modern from classic design.
I would say: it totally depends on how savvy your users are and what kind of functionality you use in SharePoint.
For new customers I recommend going for Modern all the way (except if there are very specific requirements that need classic functionality).
The questions you need to ask yourself are:
- What are the most used features and in what mode are they available?
- What is the most user friendly method for my users?
The answers to these question should help you make a good decision. Since Modern UI is constantly evolving re-evaluate your decision periodically makes sense.