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Modern Communication Site - News WebPart - Page Property filtering
Yes there is absolutely bug with this webpart currently that needs to be addressed. When clicking between 2 pages that have these webparts using different filters the filtering breaks and just displays all items. This was appearing often to our users but inconsistently but now I'm able to reproduce this issue 100% of the time.
**UPDATE**
I'm able to reproduce this bug every time I click back to the page that contains the news webpart from ANY page in the SitePages library, regardless of what content is on the page. This does not appear to happen when clicking back from default list and library pages.
I'm using a Modern Team site. Created a choice column in the Pages library for "News Category" with either "General" or "Social". Placed a News webpart on Homepage with "News Category = General or Blank". I then created a second page ("Social.aspx") that just has a news webpart with the filter applied to "News Category = Social". Then I created a bunch of test articles setting the property to either General or Social.
Steps to reproduce
1. Navigate to the homepage (sometimes on first load you see all news articles, inconsistent).
2. Navigate to other page that has a filtered news webpart applied, in my case Social.aspx (shows all articles - Filter not working as expected).
3. Navigate back to the homepage (shows all articles - filter not working as expected).
4. Refresh the homepage (now only displays the filtered articles - no social articles appear - working as expected).
5. Repeat and I'm able to break the filtering every time you click back and forth between the pages.
I created a support ticket last week with Microsoft on this issue. I found that it works correctly for me on a "Team" site, but not a "Communication" site. I have the same issues you do. The support technician stated it worked correctly on his test site, so I created a new Out of the Box Communication site and tried it again. The first web part filters correctly, but any additional news web parts do not. I don't want to use the highlighted content web part because it involves making my category field a managed property - plus we don't like the display. The technician is escalating the ticket to the developers, so it will be interesting to see what the answer is. We are launching our intranet next week and this was a big ask, so will be having to look for some work around for now.
- Hi Carol, any word from MS, experiencing the exact same problem and can't seem to find a solution, any workaround?
Still waiting to hear back on my support ticket. They said they were sending it to the developers. I will update as soon as I hear anything.
