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Sub sites under a Hub site, automatically associated?
I agree with jcgonzalezmartin everything that I have seen indicates that Hub sites are intended to connect together multiple top levels sites, they don't surface/connect anything else
Thanks for the reply Dean_Gross jcgonzalezmartin
Oddly some of the functionality does seem to work, I've taken a screenshot of the hub site which has 3 subsites (A Subsite, B Subsite, Subsite Template). The page has a "Sites" web part which is using the option "Show all sites in hub" and there is a "News" web part, again the option on this is set to "All sites in the hub".
As you can see the information is being rolled up from the sub sites to the web parts.The parent navigation is also present on the sub sites.
Interesting eh?
Rob- yes, very interesting and it appears to be another example of confusing implementation and documentation. I'm not sure how to present this functionality to my customers. I guess I'm going to have spend some time doing my own testing since I can't rely on the documentation at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/associate-a-sharepoint-site-with-a-hub-site-ae0009fd-af04-4d3d-917d-88edb43efc05
Maybe the MS push to stop promoting the use of sub sites has meant this "hidden" functionality has fallen through the cracks. Personally I think there is still a good argument for sub sites in some designs of SharePoint, easy site creation from templates being one. Assuming MS don't turn off this behaviour that I've discovered it could offer some nice features that my customers would like.
