What is the difference between site collections and site in sharepoint

Thanks again Dean Gross. I've read up on the Content Organiser - it suggests that you can use this to route documents when you upload them, but does it work for docs which have already been uploaded? Thanks, Oz. No, it does not work for docs already uploaded, but since it works with the Drop Off library, you could move files from an existing location to the dropoff library and then the rules would get triggered.

My question is when creating a "collection" why does it ask for "site" template like Team Site" or "Project Site" etc. Is that selection only to limit the type of "sites" we can create in that collection? Does not give option to create parallel sites within a collection. Your statement about sites meaning site collections is not correct. MS came up with these 2 names when the stared O and since the words have very vague meanings they really don't provide much value.

You are asking an age old question that has existed since the early days of SharePoint 15 years ago :. It has to do with the fact that a site collection is really just a container of sites, when it is created, there is just one site in the collection the top level or root and this is created from a "site" template. To make it even more confusing, when you do this in code it is called a "web". Some of the site templates are intended to be the only site in the collection, but there is nothing that prevents you from adding subsites to them.

Thanks Dean. So effectively, every collection is a site called 'root' or 'home' site and everything else within that collection could only be subsites to that 'root' site.

Therefore "site collection" is just one site and the collection of sub-sites under that root site. Which is basically the root site created automatically for new collection.

On visithing this site, when we go to 'Site Contents' it gives option to create "Sub-sites" screen below. I was trying to find out how do we actually create "sites" instead of subsites within a collection.

If this option of "subsite" at the collection level is actually just a terminology and these are effectively the "sites" then that's fine. Just wanted to make sure I am not missing anything while setting up the base structure.

It is just terminology. Site collections contain sites which can also be called subsites for simplicity. Site collections are frequently called sites, because people are lazy and MS does not have technical editors enforcing consistent usage of terminology in their documentation:.

When writing code, sites are called webs, which makes this whole topic all the more confusing. Products 75 Special Topics 42 Video Hub Most Active Hubs Microsoft Teams.

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