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Dean_Gross
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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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Vincent_Nguyen
Copper Contributor
Jan 29, 2021
I did add a new column name "category" with "Choice" Type but I did not see it from the dropdown of Managed Property. How do you able to show the category property from the Managed property dropdown?
Thank you.
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Dorje-McKinnon
Iron Contributor
Jan 31, 2021

Hi Vincent_Nguyen 

I'm not very sure how to answer your question but I think, there may be a difference between the Library Columns and the ContentType columns.

The library has the Category column , but the ContentType for your files doesn't know about that column so you'll need to alter the ContentType to show the new column in your library.

I'd suggest you do some reading before just changing things. Generally you don't want to change the "Site Page" content type, but make a Child content type e.g. VincentsSitePage with the "Site Page" as it's parent.

Then add your Category column to VicentsSitePage, then change all your pages over to VicentsSitePage content type, and make it the default for the library.

Then when you view the properties of a page it will show the columns related to it's content type (which is now VincentsSitePage) , which contains Category.
Sorry this is getting into more advanced SharePoint admin tasks. 

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