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Modern news web part any way to hide author
Hi! Our customers want to be able to publish news where the author is not displayed. Some news published don't have an information owner or the information comes directly from the organization itsel...
- If you have a generic (e.g. Corporate Communications) account, you can associate the post with that author without logging in using that account. It will work in the web part as well. However, it doesn’t work for News Links, where there is no way to associate the post with a different author.
SusanHanley Just found a work around to change the author of a News Link. Go to Site Pages in a flat view (no grouping), add the "Author" column to the view and edit it in Grid Mode. It works.
I only see "Author Byline" as an option, not "Author". When you update the Author Byline, it updates the author that appears on the page, but not the author that appears in the news web parts. That seems to grab the Created by fields, which is not an editable field. Am I missing something?
- You are right, I was talking about the "Author Byline" column (in French, it is only "Auteur"). It takes a bit of time to update the web part and the "See all" page because it is based on the search engine which needs to crawl and reindex. If you check back, I think that you will get the new author.
- Thank you! That actually did work! Great tip!