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Unable to add content type hub 'custom columns' to content type custom word template ...
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.
On my comment:
"what would your CTH be based on??"
Imagine if you have some team sites and you have some publishing sites. When you create a custom publishing page content type based on a publishing content type then you would publish this to all team sites as well. So you would end up with a bit of a mix in the consuming sites.
I've used PnP PowerShell mainly for classic sites, but modern sites might be worth a try soon.
Thanks Pieter Veenstra.
Understand now.
I just watched a couple of PnP webinars re modern sites. Looks interesting although not sure PnP would enable me to modify the content type templates.
I am also now getting an "access denied" error when asking a Group site to refresh the published content types:
Therefore, I think I'm going to give up on the hub and go back to the non-Group site with content types defined at the site level. Its not perfect but it works and I need to make some progress.
Thanks again.
So my struggles with a Office 365 tenant wide site column should be discarded like an old rag? I want to use it for a recordsnumber where the records are in Another system. I just want to add it and index it. This shouldn't be this hard... :(
I've added the colum to the Content Type Hub but it won't show up in my sites. Set it up last week so it should be synced. I can't find anywhere I should configure it but that doesn't mean it's not there. Is there something I should do?