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Way to convert existing site to modern team site UI?
The new modern team site home page looks great and new team sites get to use it. How about existing sites? Is there a way for a site owner to convert their site (especially the home page) to the mo...
Chris McNulty
Microsoft
MicrosoftThe quick way to do this: build a new page inside the Pages library, and
then use the "..." content menu option "Make Homepage" to set the new
page as the default home page for the team site.
I'd love to be able to create modern site pages within a legacy publishing site collection, but don't yet have the option. Is this feature going to become available? I can create modern libraries ansd lists with no problem, but desperatley want to modernise the home pages of subsites etc.
Is there a setting within site features or page layout templates that needs to be manually changed?
Thanks in advance,
L
- Hi Luke, can you build a new page inside the Pages library, and then use the "..." content menu option "Make Homepage" to set the new page as the default home page for the team site?
What is wrong when I can create new modern pages to old "traditional" Team Sites and Project Sites but from the (Site) Pages library I cannot promote them as the default home page for the site? There is no such option.
Okay so here's how I did it,
I activated the Site Pages feature in Site Features on the destination site which is the root site collection on our tenant
I then used Sharegate migration to copy the Site Content Type for Site Page to the destination site collection. I then copied the Site Pages library and the Pages Library to the destination site and merged changes.
I can now create Modern pages
Hope that helps
Chet
I'm up and running having now enabled the Site Pages feature and can now create modern pages. As simple as that. Many thanks!
I now have a strange oddity with the Quick Links webpart, which is not displaying in comapct view for my end users (defaulting to filmstrip), despite the page being saved and published.
Homepage appears fine for me and I've logged users in and out of their browser, clearing cache etc...
But appreciate that's not for this forum! ;)
Through testing, it appears that the compact view for the quick links webpart, is only available to users that are configured for first release. Does that sound correct?
I like the Communication Site layout and easy navigation style. Ideal for organization knowledge base sharing. Only that we have tonns of article in current Team Sites and practically impossible to migrate all pages / documents one-by-one.
I tried using Hero content part on Team Site but the layout is way different from actual Communication Site. E.g., it doesn;t fit the width of the page, search option is missing, navigation elements are incomplete. Hope there will be a way to migrate content from team sites one day.
Regards,
SM
- This is the method I have been using, however please be warned there are quite a few issues that I've discovered with Modern pages on none Microsoft Teams Sites, please see my post here for details: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Warning-Modern-Pages-on-Existing-None-Microsoft-Teams-SharePoint/td-p/77594
Chris - do you know how to get rid of the banner from the modern pages? I love the way the team site home page looks when the site is created from Groups, but we won't be using groups at this point. I'd love the 'full page' experience for the home page.. then just use the banner pages for news (like the demoed at Ignite).
If you are up to adding a modern web part you can use the custom script / content editor web part to add custom html to the page allowing you to hide the banner:
After installing to the app catalog, add the app to the site then edit the app properties.
Add to the CSS Editor property:
.pageHeader {
display:none;
}
To remove the banner from a new modern page, all I had to do was change the PageLayoutType from "Article" to "Home"
<mso:PageLayoutType msdt:dt="string">Article</mso:PageLayoutType>
to
<mso:PageLayoutType msdt:dt="string">Home</mso:PageLayoutType>
Chris McNulty are there any known compatibility blockers?
We can create new pages in some of our team sites but not others. I can't see anything different between them.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Thanks
