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Jason Nicholson's avatar
Jason Nicholson
Copper Contributor
Dec 09, 2016

Modern Team Site News Web Part

I've created a new Office 365 Group and got the new modern SharePoint Team site with it.  I then customized the home page, adding a News web part and the Activity web part, then made that new page th...
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Alina Skarbovsky's avatar
Alina Skarbovsky
Former Employee
Dec 12, 2016

Hi Andrew,

 

The fact that the News webpart is showing up on the homepage means that News is enabled for you. Let's try to figure this out. Can you please provide some details:

  • When creating News where did you start? Did you click "+Add" on the News webpart or "add news" on the web part itself or did you click "+New" on the page header or create a site page through any other entry points?
  • Did you click "Publish" on the news post?
  • If you go to the Site Pages library (there is a link "Pages" on the left nav), do you see your news posts? Are they checked out (they'll have a small green icon) ?

Thanks!

Andrew Gilleran's avatar
Andrew Gilleran
Steel Contributor
Dec 12, 2016

Hi Alina

I tried all the options! All pages are published, no check outs, I can see all the pages in the Site Pages library. But the news web briefly says 'updating news list' and then still shows the default web part content. I was using Firefox but check in Edge just in case there migth be caching or something but no, didn't show up there either.

I have removed and added the news web part. It is the same in another site I created around the same time. The only connection between them is that they were created from Teams and Office 365 Groups and not in SharePoint itself.

 

I am full admin on my tenant (I am the only user!).

 

Thanks

 

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  • Alina Skarbovsky's avatar
    Alina Skarbovsky
    Former Employee
    Dec 12, 2016

    Thanks for the details, Andrew.

    Can you please do another thing ? Let's see if the news you posted are actually marked as news in the system.

    Here are the steps:

    1. Go to the "pages" library by clicking on the "Pages" link on the left nav
    2. Click on "+" near the columns names and choose "Show/Hide columns"
    3. Choose the "Promoted State" column and click "Apply" at the top

    If your news were properly published as news they should have "2" in the PromotedState column.

     

    • Andrew Gilleran's avatar
      Andrew Gilleran
      Steel Contributor
      Dec 13, 2016

      Hi Alina

      They are all at '0'. I've just created some new pages and they are also set at zero.

       

      regards

      Andrew

      • Andrew Gilleran's avatar
        Andrew Gilleran
        Steel Contributor
        Dec 13, 2016

        As a test I switched to classic view for the Site Pages library, created a datasheet view and changed all items from '0' to '2' and now they appear on the home page. But obviously that is not way to be doing it!