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Iron Contributor

May 22, 2018

Sub sites under a Hub site, automatically associated?

Hi, I'm having a play with hub sites to get a better understanding of how they work. For an experiment I created a classic team site from the SharePoint Admin console and then created a number o...

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Rob-CTL

Iron Contributor

May 23, 2018

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

Dean_Gross

Silver Contributor

May 23, 2018

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

Rob-CTL
Iron Contributor
May 24, 2018
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.
- Dean_Gross
  Silver Contributor
  May 24, 2018
  One of the big issues with Subsites is that they cannot be connected to an Office 365 group so you can easily end up with some weird security issues. This risk is mitigated if you keep everything set to inheritable perms
  - Rob-CTL
    Iron Contributor
    May 25, 2018
    Dean_Gross wrote:
    One of the big issues with Subsites is that they cannot be connected to an Office 365 group
    That can also be seen as an advantage :)