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pjbarry21
Brass Contributor
Nov 12, 2019

Re: Change News Page to Site Page

AndreeS Noel_Suarez I know it's been months, but just ran into this and found a way to make the column editable (it was also greyed out and read-only in quick edit mode for me -- early/targeted release on our sites, too) and thought I'd share in case anyone else runs into it.

 

I did 2 things -- and I think the first was unrelated to it working, but just in case it isn't... I checked the page out. Can't imagine this had any effect, but...

 

What I think actually changed it was going into the column settings and editing one thing. I didn't do anything big. Since Promoted State is a number format and I only wanted to remove one promoted/news article (and change no other pages), I chose not to have min/max both be "0" -- but I did change the number of decimal places from Automatic to 0. I saved the change, it acknowledged that the column had been changed/updated, and then I went into quick edit mode and the column was editable. And the article is no longer in the site collection's News webpart or Microsoft's new News.aspx page that they rolled out on our sites a couple weeks ago. And the article is still in all the other places it should be.

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  • Anders_Kjo's avatar
    Anders_Kjo
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 18, 2021

    pjbarry21 Thanks for the solution! Confirm that it is enough to open edit column and save without making any changes to be able to edit Promoted State.

  • jelyware's avatar
    jelyware
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 15, 2020
    Thank you pjbarry21 - this was what I needed to be able to edit the promote state value after following instruction to expose Promote State column!!
  • SusanHanley's avatar
    SusanHanley
    MVP
    Jan 06, 2020

    pjbarry21 Thanks for sharing. I tried this in my own tenant and found that you actually don’t have to make any changes at all. Just click Edit on Promoted State and save without making an update. That seemed to do the trick to “unlock” the column for quick edit. You just need to remember to publish the page again after you make it Promoted State = 0. 

    If you decide to make the page News again (using the Promote button on the page), the Created date stays the same but the First Published date is updated - so the page will become “new” News again. 

    • pjbarry21's avatar
      pjbarry21
      Brass Contributor
      Jan 06, 2020

      SusanHanley So glad it's easier to do now. I'm wondering if it may have changed since I originally posted this (so much changes so often these days with it being online now) -- because I'd tried clicking edit and saving (I find a lot of things just need a quick save to unlock them), and still had the greyed out column. It just wouldn't let me do it at the time. Glad that it looks like it's easier to change it now, though!

  • Sophie155's avatar
    Sophie155
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 05, 2020

    pjbarry21 - this worked a treat! Thanks for coming back a few months later to share your findings.

  • davidmoon's avatar
    davidmoon
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 05, 2020
    This method work to allow editing of Promoted State in Quick Edit

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