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Strange behavior in Hub site permissions
Hi,
We are experiencing some strange issues after associating some sites to a hub site. Here's the thing:
We have four associated sites. When creating news on these sites, they are aggregated to the hub site (as expected).
One user sees all the news articles on the hub sites, but several other users only see some of them (or maybe no news at all).
When opening the home page on the hub site in Edit mode, we can see the problem in the News web part. The one user that sees all the news, gets all the associated sites listed under the "Sites associated with this hub" property. But the other users only see some (or none) sites!
Anyone have any idea what might cause this?
It is worth pointing out that all the users have been added to the associated sites, and have Full Control to all of them.
Thanks,
Frank
- Here is the post. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/User-In-Owner-Role-No-Search-Results/m-p/206311
I'm almost betting this is related, due to the fact that you added yourself to the actual group which adds them to the member group on the site vs. owner group. Try adding yourself to the members group on the other sites, or others instead of owners and see if it fixes the issue.
- Check your permissions on your root SharePoint site under https://tenant.sharepoint.com/
If your users don't have access to this site, it's caused issues with Hub rollups.Thank you for your reply, Christopher!
I do have access to the root SharePoint site, since the company's main intranet is located there. However, I only have Read access (Visitors group).
Do I need more access? If not, can anyone see what else might cause this?EDIT: The employee that actually see all the sites, also only have Read access on the root site.
Thanks again,
FrankThis may have already come up but, if the user does not have access to the site, they will not see news from that site when aggregated to the Hub Site.
However, you can get around that by giving them read access to Site Pages and Site Assets > Site Pages on the associated site.
Disclaimer: This may not be a best practice but, it's one we currently employ to solve for HR-related news in our org as we cannot give everyone access to the HR site, for example.
