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Change News Page to Site Page
Ok, I finally got this to work without Using flow. Do the following.
1.Go to Site Pages on your Site.
2.Change your view to "All Items"
3.Now Click the + to add a column to view, and select Show/Hide Columns
4.Check Promoted State column and click "Apply" at the top.
5.Now Click the view drop down and Save view as
6.Name it "All Items and State"
7.Now you should be able to click "Quick Edit" and then Promoted State column will be exposed to change the value. Change the page you no longer want to be news from 2 to 0 and Click exit and your page can now be a Site page again.
Ok, so I used the trick of exposing the column, saving the view, the using quick edit to change the 2 to 0 for a couple of pages.
if I add a news web part to the site where the page is located, the page doesn't show up any more! Great!
BUT! I have added a news web part to the hub site. The edited pages are still showing up at the hub level. I've deleted the web part, deleted the page its on, recreated everything...but they still show up on the hub site.
any advice for this situation? I've opened a case with our cloud support, I will update if I get helpful results from them
I waited overnight, no change.
and just to be clear, I didn't delete the pages, I just changed their value in the "Promoted State" column.
- So deleting the news webpart and adding it again doesn’t update the articles? Search must not be refreshing when that column changes. I’ll poke around in my test site to see. Or it’s using a different flag for hub sites in addition to promoted state column.
I just worked with MS support on this, what a frustrating experience!
They also couldn't fix it. We started a reindex of the hub site, so I'm waiting overnight to see if that helps things along.
I may end up simply deleting the pages and recreating them as site pages from the very beginning.