Forum Discussion

Dean_Gross's avatar
Dean_Gross
Silver Contributor
Feb 05, 2019

News Web Part - filter by Managed Metadata

I have added a Managed Metadata (with allow multiple choices enabled) column to the Site Pages library. When I use the News web part and choose the Page Properties filter, i can set it "Equal" to a v...
SharePoint Online
Aragorn's avatar
Aragorn
Iron Contributor
Mar 30, 2020

Hi Dean,

 

Did you find a solution to this? I'm having the same problem. I have a custom column in the pages library but unable to filter by it in the News web part. I selected 'page properties' in the filter but my custom column doesn't show. I only have 'Title'.

 

Thanks

  • Dorje-McKinnon's avatar
    Dorje-McKinnon
    Iron Contributor
    Mar 30, 2020

    Hi Aragorn 

    I just checked my modern sharepoint intranet home page, news carosel.

    In the webpart filter, the only drop down options I have are a "blank" drop down item and "title" item, then the equals,contains etc drop down

    I thought that the news filter used to have a "managed property" drop down option along with the "title" option. But I may be mistaken. When I checked just now only the "Highlighted content" web part had the "managed property" filter option.

    Perhaps you could use "Highlighted" content Paul ?

     

    • JuanBij12's avatar
      JuanBij12
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 09, 2021

      Dorje-McKinnon 

      The Managed Property only appears in the drop down (inside the news web part) if you choose "select sites" under "select a news source". !

      If you choose "this site" then the managed property is not available! strange...

      • Dorje-McKinnon's avatar
        Dorje-McKinnon
        Iron Contributor
        Mar 06, 2021
        hi JuanBij12 . I see the same functionality.
        Under "News source", select "This site", then under "Filter" the drop down contains "Page Properties" and for me the only property I can select is Title.
        I'm sure if I altered the SitePages content type to contain all the metadata columns I might need then they would show up in this drop down.
    • Aragorn's avatar
      Aragorn
      Iron Contributor
      Mar 31, 2020

      Dorje-McKinnon Thanks! I found the answer to my problem. I was using a Boolean (Yes/No) column for my news pages library and it looks like this is not a supported data type for the News web part filter. I changed to Choice and it now shows in the drop-down.:smile:

       

      Supported column types:

      • Single line of text
      • Multiple line of text
      • Choice (Multi Choice)
      • Number
      • Currency
      • Lookup
      • Hyperlink or Picture
      • Calculated
      • Computed
      • Managed Metadata
      • Approval Status

      https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10031

Resources