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Adding columns to SharePoint Admin Center - Active Sites
Hey,
My org wants me to find a solution for managing ownership of sites.
Ideally we need to know a single owner of a site and which department they belong to.
I know I can look at the site owners group and I can create and link to hub sites. This is not an ideal solution. So, I am looking at other possibilities.
It would be really useful if we could add extra columns to the Active sites in SharePoint Admin Center. Does anyone know if this is possible or if anyone has any other solutions, without having to keep an excel spreadsheet of all sites?
Thanks, in advance!
ChrisSouthgate from SharePoint Admin Center you can select a site, but to directly add columns (or metadata properties) to sites, you'd need to work with the Site Collection settings. In SPO, columns are generally added using Content Types. For site-wide columns, need to enable Content Types via Site Settings.
To add columns across all sites:
- Enable Content Types at Site Collection Level: In Site Settings, go to Site collection features and enable Content Type Syndication Hub.
- Create/Modify Content Types: In Site Settings, under Site Content Types, create or modify a content type and add your columns.
- Publish and Apply Content Types: Use the Content Type Hub to push content types across site collections, or manually add them to individual sites under Site Settings > Site Content Types.
- Apply to Libraries:
Enable content type management in Library Settings and add the content type to libraries.
Hi ChrisSouthgate have you consider creating a custom properties for SPO profile which can be mapped to Active Directory or LDAP compliant directory services. Here's a link that might help: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/add-and-edit-user-profile-properties
Hello ChrisSouthgate
it's not possible to add custom columns in the SharePoint Admin Center.
Maybe you can use Third-Party solutions for your site management.
Best, Dave
