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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" ...
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.
- 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.