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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...
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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.
      • AndyClarke's avatar
        AndyClarke
        Copper Contributor
        Aug 31, 2021

        Dorje-McKinnon I've just spent days trying to fix this problem on our sites. some only show Title, some show all the custom columns available. After re-creating the columns in all sorts of different ways I then changed the default content type on the library for the offending sites to our custom type and all the columns appeared in the web part. For us, the standard Site Page type doesn't have any custom columns added to it, they are only added to our custom subtypes.

  • 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

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