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Adii Ch
Nov 12, 2018Copper Contributor
Using Communication site for intranet - need help?
Hi, I really like modern layout in communication & team sites and now MS is introducing hub sites too. I am preparing our company intranet portal using Communication site as the home page which wi...
Adii Ch
Nov 12, 2018Copper Contributor
Thank you for quick replies. I think discussion is going into another direction. I really would not prefer to go for Teams for now. Like I mentioned before the needs are just for portal home for news/feeds etc and department sites for departments (HR, Finance etc) for document sharing.
Look like I still didn't get an answers to my initial questions? :)
- Nov 12, 2018The same applies, hence why I said Working Site / Team. You can inject either one. I just suggested using a Group connected Team site (Not Teams) instead of a bunch of comm sites so you can expand those later if you choose and control the permissions via the group.
But nothing is stopping you from just using Comm sites, it's just preference, Comm sites have the top nav, team sites don't it's on the left. That will be able to be changed before long however so that won't be the case in the near future but for now it's something to consider. With Group connected Team site you get more web parts etc as well.
But if all you care about is Libraries and nothing else in the future, I would just go with Comm sites, joined to Hub or hubs. Don't use Subsites, they really aren't the future and are missing some features as you have discovered.- Adii ChNov 12, 2018Copper ContributorWhat webparts/features are not available in subsites which are available in group connected team site?
- Christophe HumbertNov 12, 2018Iron Contributor
You were concerned about navigation. A hub will allow you to build a menu that cascades down to all associated sites.
I think the main point here is that there is no benefit of using subsites over separate team sites.