Forum Discussion
News on SharePoint Home is rolling out!
News don't require any special setup, but the control won't show up if you don't have any news published. Do you have any news in modern team sites that you are following or using frequently?
This may be a semantic thing but when you refer to 'Modern Team Site' are you refering to an Office Group created via '+ Create Site' (on SharePoint landing page) or a SharePoint site with a 'Modern Page ' that contains the Modern News Web Part ?
If this only works for Office Groups then are there any plans to surface from 'Modern Pages' as well ?
Modern page is the underlaying content type for news : all news are modern pages, but not all modern pages are news (or will be).
You can start using News in classic team sites today by following these steps:
1. Create a modern page on your existing site.
2. Add a News web part to the modern page you created and publish the page.
3. Go to the modern page with News web part and click "+Add" near the News web part title to create news posts.
4. All posts created by clicking on "+Add" on the News web part title will be news and will get rolled up in SharePoint home for users that are active in that site or following it.
We are also working on enabling users to make any modern page news, but this capability is not yet available.
If I created a team site as "Classic" instead of "Modern," is this why I can't view the News Web Part? Is there a way to make this available in the Classic version?
Thanks,
Kristine