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Chris Gilson's avatar
Chris Gilson
Brass Contributor
Nov 29, 2016

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...
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Chris McNulty's avatar
Chris McNulty
Silver Contributor
Nov 29, 2016
The 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.
Luke Robertson's avatar
Luke Robertson
Copper Contributor
Jul 20, 2017

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

  • Andrew Silcock's avatar
    Andrew Silcock
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 20, 2017
    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?
    • Teemu Strand's avatar
      Teemu Strand
      Iron Contributor
      Jul 27, 2017

      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.

      • Deleted's avatar
        Deleted
        Jul 27, 2017

        I just delete the existing Home.aspx and rename the Modern Page to Home.aspx - works without errors

  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Jul 20, 2017

    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

    • Luke Robertson's avatar
      Luke Robertson
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 21, 2017

      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?

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