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Dedicated News Site - Filter News to Team Sites
amelsom2035 One thing to consider - if you make a separate communication site for each type of news, you can assign different people permissions for each type. Then, people can subscribe to the sites that have the news type that they wish to follow. AND, you can create a news web part on the individual relevant team sites so that you pull in ALL the news from the new site that is relevant for that team. News does not let you use a filter when you are pulling in content from another site, but it does let you pull in ALL the news from another site. Using this approach has the added advantage that each article will have metadata telling where it came from. On your "main" news site, you can have individual News web parts pulling in news from each News site so anyone who goes to the main news site could see all news in a single place. You could even make the main News site a hub and associate all the other topic-specific News sites to that hub. Hopefully, this picture helps explain!
Hi SusanHanley
Thank's for the reply, this was one option I was considering doing which I've suggest to the wider team that will overall be managing the news. I think this is the best option that would work. I'm doing this is currently in a slightly different way as we have divisions and then departments, our divisional hub sites are sitting as Hubs that link our departments. so i am linking the news from the divisional sites back to the the overall news site , so you can visit the news page and see the news from each division, I was then going to setup a page per department under the news that the just pulls news from the department areas, so you can visit the News site, and go to the Technical News page and see the news that the technical department have posted, without needing to be a member of the technical teams page.
overall 'd like to use your suggestion but i have to link this in to legacy sites that are being used, and our users don't have a lot of experience with SharePoint at the moment so need to make this as easy as possible.
Thanks for your replies they are really useful!
