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Ian Macnaughtan's avatar
Ian Macnaughtan
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Apr 26, 2017

Unable to add content type hub 'custom columns' to content type custom word template ...

Hello. As I'm not able to change the template for custom content types in modern team sites (Office 365 Groups), I added my custom content types to the hub. In the hub I was able to change the templa...
  • Pieter Veenstra's avatar
    Apr 26, 2017

    Hi Ian Macnaughtan,

     

    this is exactly the reason why I don't like using the content type hub for Office 365 (Don't get me wrong in on-premises environment I'm happy with CTH, although if the customer has any needs to move to Office 365 in the future ...).

     

    Additionally I don't like mixing publishing sites and team sites ( what would your CTH be based on??)

     

    Back to your question ...

     

    I have been using PnP Powershell to export and import fields/content types created in my template site collections and then on a regular basis I apply these to my sites. This way I can control publishing sites/ team sites issues but also I can handle when I want to publish the content types/fields. With a bit of PowerShell Magic I can even exclude unwanted content types. Even things like default values could be managed using this approach.

     

     

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