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How to create Hub Sites and associate sites

Created by Lidia Afework in SharePoint 9 Sep 2023

How
to create Hub Sites and associate sites to Enhance Your SharePoint Environment

SharePoint
is a powerful platform for collaboration, content management, and communication
within organizations. One of the key features that enhances this capability is
the Hub Site. Hub Sites seamlessly integrate interconnected SharePoint sites by
providing consistent branding, navigation, and search functionalities,
resulting in a unified user experience. Acting as central hubs, they enable
effortless navigation across various departmental, project-specific, and
team-based sites. These Hub Sites facilitate organized categorization, simplify
content aggregation, and centralize permission management, streamlining user
access and administrative control across associated sites.

There
are some important notes to keep in mind when working with hub sites.

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In this
guide, I'll walk you through the process of creating a Hub Site and associating
a site with a hub site in SharePoint Online, with illustrative screenshots.

Step-by-Step Guide: How to create Hub site and associate sites.

Part 1: Creating a Hub Site

Step 1: Navigate to SharePoint admin center

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have to have admin permission to do this.

Step 2: Selecting the site to be Hub site

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a site that you want to make a Hub site,

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the command bar, click on hub.

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color:black"> From
the drop down, select “Register as hub site”.

Step 3: Register as hub site

1.
There appears the Register as hub site panel. Enter a
name and People who can associate sites with this hub.

2.
Finally, Click save to make the site a hub site. It is now ready
to link to other sites.

Part 2: Associating a site to a Hub Site:

Step 1: Navigate to SharePoint admin center

Step 2: Selecting the site to be associated with the hub site

Step 3: Associate with the hub

1.
There appears the Edit hub association panel. Click on
the Select a hub. From the drop down menu, select the hub site you want to
associate with.

2.
Finalize the step by Clicking “save” to associate the site with
the hub site. You can associate other sites with the same hub site in the same
way.

In conclusion, by bringing
together related sites, keeping a consistent look, and making it easier to find
things, hub sites make the user experience better. Implementing and managing Hub
Sites can turn your SharePoint site into a well-connected and easy-to-use hub
for sharing and working together.