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SharePoint sites vs. Site Collections - CONFUSED!
Another option is to use the Content Organizer, you can send files to a Drop Off library where the get assigned a Content Type, tagged with Metadata and then automatically routed to a final destination. see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Configure-the-Content-Organizer-to-route-documents-B0875658-69BC-4F48-ADDB-E3C5F01F2D9A
Thanks again Dean_Gross. I've read up on the Content Organiser - it suggests that you can use this to route documents when you upload them, but does it work for docs which have already been uploaded? Thanks, Oz
No, it does not work for docs already uploaded, but since it works with the Drop Off library, you could move files from an existing location to the dropoff library and then the rules would get triggered.
When we create site collections by going to "SharePoint Admin Center -> site collections" (screen below), then it gives us option to create site collection either under .../sites/ or .../teams/.
So "/sites/" really means "/site-collection/".
My question is when creating a "collection" why does it ask for "site" template (like Team Site" or "Project Site") etc. Is that selection only to limit the type of "sites" we can create in that collection ?
Also when I visit the new created collection, I expected to see a "+ Create Site" but looks like the collection created is site itself (screen below). Does not give option to create parallel sites within a collection.
Your statement about sites meaning site collections is not correct. In that context, /sites/ is just part of the url address and is intended to provide a different path to a collection than the /teams/ path. MS came up with these 2 names when the stared O365 and since the words have very vague meanings they really don't provide much value. Many companies will put certain type of collections in one or the other of these paths, but that is a totally arbitrary decision on their part (the MS Teams app does create new collections in the /teams/ path. )
You are asking an age old question that has existed since the early days of SharePoint 15 years ago :). It has to do with the fact that a site collection is really just a container of sites, when it is created, there is just one site in the collection (the top level or root) and this is created from a "site" template. To make it even more confusing, when you do this in code it is called a "web".
It is theoretically possible to create each site/subsite in a collection from different templates, but this is typically a bad idea.
Some of the site templates are intended to be the only site in the collection, but there is nothing that prevents you from adding subsites to them
Community sites have been around for a long time and are totally different than Communication sites (which are new), see https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219805.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 for some info on Community sites.
