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Permission to add news but not edit page or navigation
I have a communication site and I would like everyone in my organisation to be able to add news but not edit the site homepage or navigation. Is it possible to allow users to add news via the "+Add" on the news webpart but prevent them from being ably to edit the page that webpart is on, or the site navigation?
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- Heads-up, we're having an issue with the workaround of mark the home page as read-only and giving site contribute permissions. The Add > News post link for the News webpart won't work unless the user has edit access to the page the News web part appears on. This workaround seem to work in the past (before 10/15/2021). Here's what we've done to address this in case it's not a temporary glitch that Microsoft will fix:
- Create a separate page with instructions on creating news posts. We find this very helpful for just-in-time training.
- Add a link to the instruction page that links to the same page you get when clicking the "See All" link from a News web part. It's a system generated page that users with site contribute permissions can use the Add > News post link on, but they can't edit the actual page. The link will be something like "..._layouts/15/news.aspx?title=.....
- Add a button "Add News Post" and include it on the page where the News web part is posted. For us, this was a hub site home page marked read-only for our site Visitors group to prevent them from changing it.
- Deselect the "Show title and commands" option for the News web part to hide the Add button to avoid confusion as it won't work. 1. Assign the user to group with contributor role
2. Go to Setting > Site Content. Click Site Pages
3. Find the site's Home.aspx and click Details
4. Click Manage Access, find the group with contributor role and disable edit function (click at the pencil icon)
That should do the work.
fazliaziz We made the parent site read only and then broke the inheritance on the site where we wanted users to be able to post news.
- Because news are pages and pages library holds everything you can’t exactly out of the box. You could break permissions on each page and make them read only and then allow edit rights on the site pages library for the news. That way your pages are locked read only but the library will allow new pages for news.
- Tried this but the users lose the "+Add" button on the webpart and they also cannot access the new page form.
