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jellybeancooper
Brass Contributor
Oct 31, 2024

How do I use the Filter in News web part with Selected sites

I have a site that has 3 subsites. I want to display selected news posts from these subsites in a news web part on the home page of the main site. I have tried creating terms in the term library 2 days ago. I then created a managed metadata column on the subsite Pages library and assigned terms to each of the posts. I checked the settings, the column is used in "Wiki Page, Web Part Page, Site Page, Repost Page".

 

In the news web part I have selected the site, but when I try to add the filters on the home page web part I can find the managed metadata group by typing it into the "Enter a word to find properties". However, when I type the value into the "Enter search value" nothing is found.

 

What am I doing wrong?

  • Rob_Elliott's avatar
    Rob_Elliott
    Bronze Contributor

    jellybeancooper the News web part is really designed to work with a hub site and associated sites, not subsites (which are no longer recommended by Microsoft). You can select the associated sites to roll up the news and display it on the hub site news web part.

     

    Rob
    Los Gallardos
    Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
    Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP Global (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)

     

     

    • jellybeancooper's avatar
      jellybeancooper
      Brass Contributor

      Thanks for confirming.

      The fact of life is that some of us are working for large organisations that still have subsite structures. It will be a long time before this juggernaut turns in any other direction.

      I've worked out that we can repost news pages from the subsites and display them in the news web part on the home page. I guess that will need to do for now.

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