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News Web Part Filter Not Available
I think the ability to filter on news across site collections is supposed to be coming at some point. What you can do now is use the Highlighted Content web part to pull in news articles from multiple site collections and then filter on a managed property. When I need to do this, I create a managed metadata property that I use on all of the sites I want to roll up and then map each property to an available managed property in the search schema (e.g. RefinableString05). Then I can filter the news based on that shared property - but for now, only in the Highlighted Content Web Part.
I think the ability to filter on news across site collections is supposed to be coming at some point. What you can do now is use the Highlighted Content web part to pull in news articles from multiple site collections and then filter on a managed property. When I need to do this, I create a managed metadata property that I use on all of the sites I want to roll up and then map each property to an available managed property in the search schema (e.g. RefinableString05). Then I can filter the news based on that shared property - but for now, only in the Highlighted Content Web Part.
The trouble I have with Highlighted Content is that it doesn't provide the same layout options as the News web part. Is there anyway to add layouts to the highlighted content web part?
- Not at this time.
As I am moving our intranet to SharePoint Online and trying to keep consistent functionality from SP2013 and SharePoint Online, the phrase "Not at this time" is becoming way to common. By the time I'm done I may have more custom code on this site than I would like, which means I have to manage this while MS gets the features I need added.
Nothing anyone (but MS) can do, I know, but still frustrating.
