- [Narrator] A Hub site is a site that has been
promoted and is used to connect other sites together.
So an example of a Hub that I have among my sites
is the Field Service Hub and if I click on the Hub
it looks a little different than our other sites look.
The Field Service Hub has news, but the news actually comes
from different sites from the Sales to Service
site which is connected to this Hub.
If I scroll down I can see all of the sites
that are connected Sales to Service, Wind Installs
and MainlyWind are all connected to this particular Hub.
So the purpose of a Hub is allow users to
view a group of sites that are connected to
each other in a particular way.
You might have Hubs that are based on Geography,
if you have more than one location you might have
Hubs that are based on departments.
You might have Hubs that are based on particular
functions of your business and if you have Hubs
if your organization has them, then what you can do
is you can connect site to a Hub
if you are a SharePoint Administrator
and only if you have Administrative privileges.
The way you know you can do this is you can go to
site information for the site that you want to
connect to a Hub and you'll have Hub site association option
and if there are no sites then there will be nothing here.
But as soon as there is one Hub site or more created
then you will simply choose for example,
Field Service if that's how I wanted to
connect this and this would then change
my site theme to match the Hub site
and it would add the Hub sites navigation to the this site.
So this is similar to having a site and sub site
but it's not the same, because each
of these sites is independent.
This is simply extra navigation that's created
to allow these users to view these sites
and work with them as a group.
So if I chose to save this then the site theme
the colors will change and let's see how that
will works, so that you can view the changes
that are made of we connected this to a particular Hub.
This will take a moment now remember this
is what Field Service looks like.
We have a purple theme here, we have this type of an icon.
Let's go back now to Sales Home.
And notice we have an addition of a Field Service link.
At the top our dark green banner is gone,
so that piece of strong theming has disappeared.
So I am going to refresh my site
and remember that's Share point online takes
a little more time to do everything else
it's doing in the background.
But on the next update which will
be sometime in the next hour,
if I go to Field Service and refresh it
my Sales site will have been added to Field Service.
Now that's not where it belongs and I am
going to want to disconnect it and I will
show you how to do that, but it will actually
appear down here on the next update.
Now let's return to Sales home and let's undo that change.
Let's go back and click the gear button,
go back to our site information.
So no I don't want to associate this with
the Field Service Hub, I am going to
associate this with no Hub and notice
what it says its going to remove the Hub site
navigation which at this point is only one item,
but could be more pieces of navigation from our site
and say yep, okay fine that's what I'd like to do.
I no longer want Sales to be part of the
Field Service Hub and my Sales site now will return.
And notice it has no navigation bar
at the top that's related to the Hub.