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Brass Contributor

Jul 09, 2018

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...

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Jul 11, 2018
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.

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Yeah Frank said they have full control to those sites with the news on them? Make sure that you didn't break inheritance to the Site pages libraries would be one other thing you can check to make sure they have permissions to.

Also, you need to follow / visit sites I think for them to show up in that list for filters on the hub news settings so some users may not show up here.

If you go to each site as the users that don't see news in the hub, can they access and see the news on those sites?

You may end up needing to re-index your tenant possibly as much of this is based around search index/graph.

Frank-Ove Kristiansen

Brass Contributor

Jul 11, 2018

Hi again,

I access all these sites quite frequently all day, and have all the necessary permissions. If I open the sites, I can see the news in the web part on the front page.

I tested with granting myself permissions on one of the sites. This is basically re-assigning permissions, because I already have Full control.

I receive the email Welcoming me to the group site also, so all good so far.

I go up to the hub site and edit the News web part, and voila! The site is now displayed under "Sites associated with the Hub site". And if I check it, the news from that site is also being aggregated up to the hub site.

Any idea what might cause this?

Aside: The sites were originally created by an administrator back in early June. Could that have something to do with it? Is it possible she created the groups and its associated sites using Outlook?

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Jul 11, 2018
It might have to do with a permission bug on group sites. Dean or John had this issue recently and put a bug with Microsoft where they couldn’t search when they were in the Sharepoint owners group of a site or something similar. Let me see if I get a chance to find that post but might be related.
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  Jul 11, 2018
  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.
  - Frank-Ove Kristiansen
    Brass Contributor
    Jul 13, 2018
    Thanks Christopher,
    
    I can confirm that this is the same issue we're facing.
    Thank you for your help!
    
    Kind Regards,
    Frank