We all build different project sites during the years, and also used the content by query web part to lift up the different projects we was part of, but how can we achieve the same in Modern SharePoint. In this session we will: Use Hub sites as the home of our Projects, Create a Project template with Site Design and Site Scripts, Enable a flow to add some more magic. Look at different web parts both from Microsoft and from the community to help us lift up our Project Sites. Ensure it is is all security trimmed so that we don’t see more then we have access to see. Really Cool! And we will also make sure that our Projects are teamified so that we also can access them from Microsoft Teams, and with prepopulated content, so our Project Managers can start to work immediately So lets build the new Project Hub together.

1. HOW TO BUILD A PROJECT
HUB WITH HUBSITES AND
SITEDESIGN AND SITESCRIPTS
Knut Relbe-Moe | Valo Intranet |
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4. Agenda

5. Who’s speaking?
Knut Relbe-Moe
√ Founder of DocsNode (your template solution
for Office)
√ SharePoint Specialist
√ Partner Manager Valo Intranet
√ 5 times Microsoft MVP
@knutrelbemoe
https://linkedin.com/in/knutrelbemoe

7. •Helps you with your OfficeTemplates
•Keeps the corporate brand on all the templates
•Templates stored in one place, easy to update
•Filter, sort, tag and favorites your templates
•Integrates with Document libraries
•Office-Add-In forWord, Excel and PowerPoint
•Template Chooser for Modern SharePoint
What is DocsNode
http://www.docsnode.com/

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Modern Intranet

9. Valo is an award-winning Digital
Workplace solution on Office 365
and SharePoint
• Center of all communication, social
and teamwork in your organization
• Beautiful User Experience
• Works with any device
• You can start using it immediately
• Customizable
• Always up-to-date

10. Award-winning DigitalWorkplace solution
on Office 365 and SharePoint
Valo Intranet
All the most popular
intranet features in one
package with a beautiful
user experience
ValoTeamwork
Find and manage your
groups, team sites and
collaboration tools
Valo Idea Management
Collect and nurture ideas
using gamification

12. https://joannecklein.com/2018/07/29/modern-project-sites-using-site-designs/ @JoanneCKlein

13. Source: Microsoft

14. • discover related content such as news and other site activities,
• apply common navigation and branding across associated sites,
• search across all associated sites.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-is-a-sharepoint-hub-site-fe26ae84-14b7-45b6-a6d1-
948b3966427f

15. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3280102/enterprise-applications/6-tips-for-planning-
sharepoint-hub-sites.html
@susanhanley

16. Why should we use HubSites for our projects?

17. You get a lot of functionality out of the box
from Microsoft
Search across your projects
Global Navigation for all your projects
Overview over all your projects trough associated sites

18. Associatedsites
Display the most active sites associated with the hub site on the home
page by using the Sites web part. And choose the layout you want

19. Recentdocuments
Display recent document from your sites in the hub

20. Hub Site Limitations
• Sites linked into a hub site can only be associated with one hub site.
• Hubs can’t be nested, limiting their potential for a corporate portal
• No fix for multiple languages
Source, Sam Marshall: https://www.cmswire.com/digital-workplace/hub-sites-raise-sharepoints-
intranet-potential/

21. What isSharePointSite Design andSiteScripts?

22. SiteScripts
Site Scripts is JSON definition that
describes actions and sub-actions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/site-design-overview

23. Site Designs
Site design is a set of pre-defined
actions that get executed to a site
after the site has been created.
Site design in some ways are a
container for the Site Script.
Each Site design can have one or
more associated Site Scripts
You can have a default design that
will be applied to sites when they are
created

24. Why should we useSite Design andSiteScripts for
our projects?

25. You get a lot of functionality out of the box
from Microsoft
Can join all sites to a hub that is created with the design/script
Prepopulate content into our projects
Make sure all projects have the same content types and
structure

26. Where will your users create the project sites?

27. MicrosoftTeams

29. Microsoft SharePoint

32. Should everyone
create projects or
sites?

33. But lets for this case assume that projectsshould be
createdasSharePoint sites
Step byStep creatingthis magic

34. Step to awesomeness
Build The Project HUB
Decide on Project Site Resources and Actions
Build JSON File
Add Site Script and Site Design to the Tenant
Create a Site with the Design

35. Step 1: Build the ProjectHUBSite
1. Create your SharePoint Hub
2. Create your site directory list
3. Add the required columns
4. Create Microsoft Flow to store
all created sites in the
directory
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/site-design-trigger-
flow-tutorial

36. Step 1: Build the ProjectHUBSite

37. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC
Step 2:So how do we want our project templatesto
look like??

38. Step 2:So how do we want our projecttemplatesto
look like??
Create new Project Documents library with some custom columns
Add Project Document content type to the new library
Remove Document content type from the new library
Add Project Documents library to the navigation
Remove Documents, Pages, and Site Contents from the navigation
Add the Project site to the Project Hub
Set External Sharing
Automatically add the site to the Site Directory

39. Step 3: Build theJSON / To codeor not to code…
Site design JSON schema reference,
code.learn(you);

40. Demo!

41. SharePointSite Designer @punamaki

42. Step 3: Build theJSON
PnP solution, Site Designs Studio, contributed byYannick
Plenevaux to assist in creating/changing the site scripts and site
designs
https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-solutions/tree/master/solutions/SiteDesignsStudio

43. Step 4:AddSiteScript andSite Design to theTenant

44. Step 5:Createsites with the design

45. Step 5:Createsites with the design

46. Summary

47. What doesproject hub sites offer
• They add a consistent branding across all sites
• They add a persistent menu, making it easier to move between the
linked sites.
• If you search within the hub site, it will also search all linked sites.
• We will also get publishing workflow/flow

48. What else we can do?

49. Teamify 
https://blog.leitwolf.io/create-a-microsoft-team-with-flow-
custom-connector/

50. FLOW 
https://laurakokkarinen.com/provisioning-teams-with-a-
site-design-flow-and-microsoft-graph/

51. https://www.erwinmcm.com/getting-started-with-the-pnp-provisioning-engine-and-pnp-powershell/

55. https://laurakokkarinen.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-sharepoint-site-
designs-and-site-scripts/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-
customization/site-design-pnp-provisioning
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-
customization/site-design-overview
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-
customization/get-started-create-site-design
https://joannecklein.com/2018/07/29/modern-project-sites-using-site-
designs/

56. Thank you!

57. Thank you
Knut Relbe-Moe
@knutrelbemoe
https://linkedin.com/in/knutrelbemoe
Codes and script files used in this slides:
https://github.com/knutrelbemoe/sessi
ons/

58. Eval this session and all others

60. Step 1: Build the ProjectHUBSite
Register-SPOHubSite -Site "https://docsnode.sharepoint.com/sites/projecthub"

61. Step 3: Build theJSON
Site design JSON schema reference,

62. Step 4:AddSiteScript andSite Design to theTenant

63. Step 5:Createsites with the design

64. Step 5:Createsites with the design