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One Hub or multiple Hubs
The #2 option is more inline with how the product feature is designed. And I do feel gives the best foot forward for each department to get the most of what they need from a day-to-day pov.
Each department will retain more freedom in their own space, with all the benefits hub sites offer for cross-site nav, news and such.
It would be feasible to create a distinct hub site or custom portal to help the whole company find each department - if this is a goal. But this is merely manually configuring the nav to point to each department hub as you cannot associate one hub under another. However, the cross-site nav element can be programmed with anything, so it may help with organizing - but to be clear, only the department hub sites would get the value of roll up and scoped search - and each department remain a little more autonomous.
Creating a simple custom portal (front door) to all is not uncommon, and an area of great interest to our customers, our partners in this space, and Microsoft.
And one small note, the hub sites planning guide is in final mile review, and I'll update the launch blog and make a little tweet noise about it from @SharePoint.
Cheers,
Mark
Mark-Kashman wrote:Creating a simple custom portal (front door) to all is not uncommon, and an area of great interest to our customers, our partners in this space, and Microsoft.
Hi Mark,
So in the context of a small organisation (350 people) wanting to have an Intranet portal for the entire organisation , that perhaps rolls up content from division sites (and/or team and project sites), best practice may be to create a custom portal using a communication site (or is a publishing site recommended here?) and allow the site owners to use Hero and news web parts to manually link to articles across multiple sites (rather than to have automatic roll up of content from sub-hub sites that the site owners of the hub site have limited control of).
Hub sites could be created for each division (or functional area) within the organisation. teams within the division/functional area would each have their own team (or team site) which could be connected to the appropriate divisional hub site. the advantage here being that if an organisation changes e.g. a new division is created and a team is moved to the new division, it is now very easy to associate the existing team site with the new hub site for the division.
thanks,
colm
- Thanks for getting involved Mark, Appreciated!