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Modern SharePoint News Subscription
You can use the search result alert system.
Prepare a search result page using the basic built-in tenant resultset and apply the additional filter into.
The result webpart can give you the option of the "Alert Me" at the bottom of the page, and that one will allow the user to subscribe the news associated.
This option is only a work around, the MS official positioning is to start with the "SharePoint" Home page of the tenant which is collecting the news published across the tenant on which you have the permission to read.
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Matt Janssen Deleted jcgonzalezmartin Kerstin Svanberg Fromelard John_Sanders Gretchen Hustad mattchowell Wooderson
Here is the work around we implemented when asked if this could be done. We leveraged the built in "Alerts" for the Site Pages. In our usage we where setting up blog sites using the modern communication sites and the news functionality. (I would love to have an actual subscribe functionality for each News Part and its related context, current or multiple sites)
To accomplish this I created two links in the navigation:
- Subscribe
- URL: <SiteURL>/_layouts/15/SubNew.aspx?List={<ListLibraryID>}&Source=<SiteURL>
- Edit My Subscriptions
- URL: <SiteURL>/_layouts/15/MySubs.aspx
- URL: <SiteURL>/_layouts/15/MySubs.aspx
Example URLS:
<a href="https://demo.sharepoint.com/sites/PresidentsBlog/_layouts/15/SubNew.aspx?List={B967F8B2%2D4806%2D45DB%2D9641%2D3B86E3C20B18}&Source=https://demo.sharepoint.com/sites/PresidentsBlog" target="_blank">https://demo.sharepoint.com/sites/PresidentsBlog/_layouts/15/SubNew.aspx?List={B967F8B2%2D4806%2D45DB%2D9641%2D3B86E3C20B18}&Source=https://demo.sharepoint.com/sites/PresidentsBlog</a><a href="https://demo.sharepoint.com/sites/PresidentsBlog/_layouts/15/MySubs.aspx" target="_blank">https://demo.sharepoint.com/sites/PresidentsBlog/_layouts/15/MySubs.aspx</a>
There are a few different ways to get the List/Library GUID the easiest being going into the List/Libraries Settings and pulling it from the bowser url.
With this implementation you now have a method for a user to add/modify "Alerts", without ever having to access the list/library directly. It is not as simple as a basic subscribe option but better then nothing and keeps them in the modern experience.
DamienS But it is a news.aspx page => no ListLibraryID ! How do you solve this ?
3 years later and still no subscribe functionality for published news posts? Has anyone had success creating a flow which sends emails to users who add themselves to a list? If so, can they share how they did it?
DamienSThat's fine but many organizations (and mine) are trying to get away from email. I don't get why the followed functionality which is already there can't be given priority in the news web part so news from followed sites trumps other news. If a user explicitly follows a site surely that's an indication of their interests? If not, I have no idea what the purpose of "following a site is. Currently, following has the same weight as created date which is, well, a little daft. This is probably a matter of tweaking the Graph algorithms so followed content takes precedence over everything else.
At the very least, an option to display news from followed sites should be added to the news web part. This seems like a no brainer and hard to believe Msft has missed the boat.
- John_Sanders
Microsoft
matt howell - today if you select News source = Recommended for current user, we'll pull news for the page viewer. This includes news from people you work with, people in their management chain, and news from sites you follow. It is however still ordered still in recent order (not a weighted relevance ordering).
John_Sanders Where is that "News Source" option? I'm also looking for a way for employees to pull information instead of us pushing it out to them.
