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SharePoint Online: What Happens to Sub Sites if You Delete the Parent Site?
Hi SharePoint Experts,
I am starting to build out a fresh SharePoint Online site for my group, and am still going back and forth on what the optimal design is to optimize the navigation and user experience of my environment. I am not a techie...I am part of the business that is trying to get this done :-).
I have the standard top level "SharePoint site collection," and underneath that I have a Site, and under the Site I have 3 Sub sites.
My question is what happens to the lower level sub sites if I delete their parent site (in-between the site collection and 3 sub sites)...see below? I am considering making a mega menu by creating a hierarchical dropdown from the site collection to the 3 sub sites WITHOUT the need for an added navigation step in-between.
Site Collection
-> Site
-> Sub Site
-> Sub Site
-> Sub Site
Thank you in advance!!!
Doug Doerhoff
(ddoerhoff@gmail.com)
Hi Douglas,
SharePoint will prevent you from deleting a site if there are subsites underneath. You'll get the following error when you try to:
There was a problem deleting Web site "[server relative url]". Sites that have subsites or certain apps can't be deleted. Please try again after deleting all subsites and removing the apps.
Hope this helps!
- SharePoint won't allow you to remove a Site with subsites inside. It will throw this message:
"There was a problem deleting Web site "/site". Sites that have subsites or certain apps can't be deleted. Please try again after deleting all subsites and removing the apps."
To achieve that mega-menu, you should use some custom code.
