Site Arrangements

A Site Arrangement is a hierarchy of SharePoint hub sites and spoke sites in your tenancy.

You can use a Site Arrangement to easily create and maanage a hierarchy of hub sites, and easily deploy and update Mercury products to the entire hierarchy.

Generate a Site Arrangement

You can create a new Site Arrangement from an existing hierarchy of hub sites using the Generate Button. Enter the URL of your existing top-level hub site and My Mercury will detect the hierarchy and create a new Site Arrangement.

When you do this, be sure to hit Save so the arrangement is committed to My Mercury.

Create a new Site Arrangement

You can create a new site arrangement, which will be initialised with a blank top-level site.

You must enter a site URL, as well as specify who the primary site owner is (by default, it's you as the logged in user).

You can then enter other settings as required for the top level site.

Manage the hierarchy

You can add child sites at any level, provided the parent site is marked as a hub site, from the Actions Menu. When you click Add Child Site you must remember to enter a Site URL for this child site. When you save your changes, the Site Arrangement is automatically saved into My Mercury.

Create the hierarchy structure in SharePoint

A Site Arrangement is a configuration of a hub hierarchy that you want to create in SharePoint. Any changes you make to the hierarchy arrangement is not immediately reflected in SharePoint. In order to apply your changes to SharePoint, you must Ensure the structure.

If you click Ensure Structure from the command bar at the top, the entire structure is committed into SharePoint.

But you can start the process of creating and configuring sites at any level in your hierarchy, by choose Provisioning -> Ensure Site from the Actions menu of the site you want to apply to SharePoint.

Installing Apps

You can use Site Arrangements to install Mercury products to the sites in your hierarchy, from any level. Normally you may want to start this process from the top-level site and have the products installed onto every child in the hierarchy.

From the Actions menu, choose Provisioning -> Install/Uninstall Apps to Site. Choose the products that you want to deploy, and indicate if you want these apps also installing to all children under the selected site.

If you choose Force reinstall product, then any existing apps from that product are uninstalled and reinstalled. This can be useful in rare troubleshooting scenarios.

If you choose Uninstall product, then all apps assocaited from the product are uninstalled from the site and not reinstalled.