Connect Drives to SharePoint Hub Site Hierarchies

Hub sites in SharePoint Online provide a flexible means to structure and re-organise sites. Unlike subsites in a site collection, sites' association with a hub site can be changed, allowing hub sites to be re-organised with evolving business requirements. Zee Drive supports connecting a mapped network drive, or Zee Drive virtual folder, to a SharePoint Online hub site; the associated hierarchy of sites, hub sites and document libraries can be accessed via the Zee Drive network drive.

Zee Drive will show the full hub site hierarchy you have configured. If a root hub site has other hub sites associated, and those associated hub sites themselves have associated hub sites, Zee Drive will show the full hierarchy in the network drive.

Changing the hub site associations in SharePoint will reflect in the network drive in Zee Drive automatically. There may be a delay of a few minutes before changes will reflect in the network drive depending on SharePoint Online's search index performance which is used by Zee Drive to discover site associations.

To connect your network drive or virtual folder to a hub site, choose the 'Hub site' option from the 'Connect To' drop down list in the Zee Drive administration console.

Click the Choose button and browse for a hub site.

After selecting your hub site, click the Options button to configure how Zee Drive will show sites.

If your associated sites have only a single document library and you don't use document libraries in hub sites, then choose to show only the default document library and hide hub site document libraries. File Explorer will show only the sites as folders, not document libraries. Your files can be found directly in the site folders.

As a comparison, the document libraries will now show in File Explorer if you choose to show hub site document libraries and all document libraries from associated sites.