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Sharepoint Sites and Group Sites
We have an intranet using a SharePoint Site Collection (with modern pages) which works great. We are also very interested in using the Groups and associated SharePoint Sites.
However, we have noticed that Groups do not appear to see any root level site columns, as I presume Groups are not part of the same site collection?
Is there any way to get Groups and non-group SharePoint sites to share lists? Otherwise, we are having to duplicate data or not use Group Sites.
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Your presumption is correct--group sites don't belong to your top-level site collection, and the inventory of them is only visible via an early access SharePoint administration site or Powershell (or so I've heard, never tried the Powershell solution).
Call me dense, not sure I understand what you mean by sharing lists between sites--could you give an example?
- Hi,
Thanks for the response.
When I say 'sharing lists', I mean if there are company wide values (lists) that ideally reside in one place only and can be 'seen' as a lookup in any other list - sub-site or not. In this case if a group could use it that would be excellent.
I'm aware of and use the custom list feature, but this only make the 'parent list' available to sub-sites of a site collection and not to Groups as you point out.
Until Groups sites can connect to the root parent we will unfortunately find it problematic to use.Gotcha, hadn't considered the lookup use case.
It's my impression Microsoft is indicating that we will eventually have a way of linking Group sites together (more on that here), so that may provide a way for your use case to work through Group sites, I'm not sure though. I'm also not certain that site collections as we know them will be included in the "hub" structure.
