[Autogenerated] hi. In this lesson, we're
going to talk about hub sites. But before
we answer the question, what is a hub
site? Let's take a look at all of our
SharePoint sites. We have three main types
of SharePoint sites the team site, the
communication site and, of course, the hub
site. Team sites air for collaboration.
Typically, team sites are created around
organizational units, such as a team site
for the HR team, perhaps I t or sales
marketing. Whatever IT ISS team sites are
also commonly used for a team of people to
collaborate together on a project.
Communication sites, arm or visual
communication sites are designed to focus
on a particular topic or highlight a
specific item. For example, a showcase
site for a new product. Hub sites connect
related sites together through navigation.
HAB sites connect sites using the exact
navigation features so that it's easier to
get to different sites. Now. Why do UI
want this? Why is this a good thing for a
long time? In SharePoint, it was very
popular that if you wanted to have a site
related to another site, you would create
a sub site. For example, maybe we have the
HR team site, and they wanted to create a
sub site for Ah specific project that
certain members of the HR team are doing.
Of course, you could have multiple sub
sites, and, of course, each sub site could
have sub sites as well. Now you can
imagine is people begin to create more and
more sub sites. The site collections start
to get a little bit overwhelmed and a
little unorganized. The purpose of the hub
site is, rather than creating sub sites,
you simply go ahead and create a new site
and you associate it to, ah, hub site, for
example, you could have the HR hub, and
then you could have multiple sites that
are associate ID to that hub. That way,
when people go to the hub site, it's very
easy to find the other related sites. It's
not so easy. If you have a sub site that's
a sub site off a sub site, you have to be
really, really specific about your
navigation. Let's go ahead and let's take
a look at a real live hab site and an
associate ID site. All right, we're here
in office. 3 65. Let's go to SharePoint,
and the site we're looking for is this one
Olivari skills portal. Now you'll see
there's nothing here that indicates it's a
hub site, and if I click on it at first
glance, it looks like a normal team site.
There doesn't seem to be anything
different. It's not named any differently,
although it is a good idea to come up with
a naming convention that will indicate
that it is a hub site. Perhaps call this a
LeVar a skills hub toe, let people know.
But the thing that will always tip you off
that it is, ah, hub site is the navigation
bar up at the top. We have the link to
this site, but we also have a link to an
associate ID site, technology tips and
tricks. And if we click there, it takes us
to that site. Now, if we go ahead and we
look at the site information we see, the
Hub Site Association is to that L a very
skills portal. Other than that, it's just
a normal, ordinary team site. It's just
associate ID with the L. A Bari skills
portal hub. So that is the purpose off our
hub sites. Instead of creating a site that
has many, many layers and layers of sub
sites on sub sites on sub sites, UI create
one hub site. Create all the individual
sites that we want and connect them to the
hub UI. Associate those sites to the hub
and then add the navigation here so that
it's easy to get to all of the associated
sites from the hub like we saw in our
slide. Our hub site and all of our
associated sites radiate out like spokes
on a wheel. So now you know what a hub
site is. That's it for this lesson. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.