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Remove items from News on SharePoint Communication Site
You can change the promoted state to 0, which makes the site a "regular" site page, not a News page. To do that you first have to expose Promoted State in a view (choose a flat view to make it easier to edit). (Use the + in the library view and then select Promoted State and be sure to press Apply.) Once you ahve exposed the column, you can change the order by editing the view.
Then, in quick edit, change promoted state from 2 (news) to 0 (site page). I think the challenge with this approach is that the page still exists and it can still be found in search and you now have it mixed in with "regular" site pages. You could also add a column to Site Pages and "tag" the page as Archive or something like that - but unless you un-publish, it will still be visible in search.
Turismon null Thanks for the info. I have already added to promoted state column and see that, but I'm a bit stuck on how to change it? I have tried viewing the all the options available for that page in properties etc but don't see anywhere I can change that 2 to a 0. In searches I've found a github extensions that supposedly allows this, but seems I can do this without it? Just not sure how.
Deleted But alas I am still not able to edit that promotevalue in Quick Edit. Only text columns allow changes, that value can't be changed the box is greyed out. Oh well!
ChrisWebbTech ok I think unraveled the mystery of the missing quick edit for anyone who needs this in the future. Yes Quick edit was turned on in the Library settings before, but for some reason modern view doesn't seem to pay any attention to it. I was doing all of this you suggested in modern view (creating new list views, adding columns, looking for a quick edit button in every menu). I went to the advanced library setting and saw I can change it to display the library in Classic view. So I changed it to the classic experience. Hey, I see a Quick Edit button now but greyed out with some "this option is not available" error nonsense displayed when hovering over the button. So I followed your suggestion of creating a new view with those columns, setting as default (in the classic experience, not modern). Navigated back to the library. Hey Quick edit button is enabled! So here's the weird part. I went back in to the library settings and switched back to modern experience. What do you know, the quick edit button has magically appeared there now too where it wasn't before. So it appears there is a disconnect between these two views, and is confusing as hell. Thanks for your help.
- You can turn it off in library settings, that's why i said try a different site etc. Assuming you are admin / site collection admin of the site your messing with. Anyway, you can also try "Grouping" by the promoted state column, and trying to drag and drop method between the 0 group and 2 group.
ChrisWebbTech ok tried all these steps...created a new view for site pages, set as default, added ALL columns to see if it would somehow trigger it to appear, tried chrome, IE, and firefox. Quick edit just doesn't exist for our tenant in modern view, I found an article here for the same issue some users just don't have access quick edit some do. That's where I got stuck. So I am back to square one, I will just delete pages to remove from news but I thank you for suggestions.
- Create a new view or go to another documents library and see if it shows. Are you using chrome or IE? It probably requires one of those. But sometimes it doesn't show, if you can see it other places, then create a new default view on the site pages library, and it should show quick edit. Then add the column, save over it, and refresh, it should then appear to be used.
ChrisWebbTech ok yes I saw you refer to 'quick edit' but that must not be enabled. I don;t see a quick edit option available anywhere.