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Can we allow certain users to be able to view Draft news pages
we have a classic online team site, and users are using the modern pages. now when users create a new modern page, they have the option to save it as draft, as follow:-
where the draft page can only be viewed by the author. but my question is if i can allow certain users to be able to view draft news modern pages created by other users, so they can review these draft pages and publish them accordingly if they want?
second question, now when i access the "site pages" library versioning settings, i can see that the versioning is set to have major version only, as follow:-
so from where the modern pages got the ability to be saved as draft?
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Hi john john
this is a really old post but I was facing the same issue last week. Owner A created a draft and Owner B was not able to see / edit it.
Your second screenshot gave me the final hint: You have to change the version settings of the library to the most extensive setting "Create major and minor (draft) versions". After changing this setting Owner B is able to see the draft of Owner A.
Not sure if this is still important to you but maybe there will be someone in the future facing the same issue 🙂
SYN_Dominik Thank you this was helpful! The default for Modern has that setting by default, yet until we read this post we couldn't figure out why our older sites didn't work.
- Yes, you have to play with the default permissions levels in SharePoint and/or create a custom one...but basically if you enable the approval flow and content approval you will have this. This feature has been part of SharePoint since SharePoint 2007
jcgonzalezmartin wrote:
Yes, you have to play with the default permissions levels in SharePoint and/or create a custom one...but basically if you enable the approval flow and content approval you will have this. This feature has been part of SharePoint since SharePoint 2007i do not think it is a permission issue, as when a contributor user create a new modern page and save it as draft. then even using the site admin username , i was not able to view this draft page. also i add a user to the Approvers group and this user was able to view the draft. even when i enable the "require content approval" for the "site pages" library, this did not have any effect. and still the Approvers users + the site admin user name can not view draft/pending pages...
- The way the pages work if you edit them using the default UI and hit edit, you should see the last person that saved in draft forms version if you have full control on that site pages library and be able to discard or publish that page from that draft. Unless that site admin is a site collection admin need to verify the permissions are set at that page library level.
