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Promoting word documents as News in SharePoint?
Ldavidson what you can do is to have a Word document uploaded to a documents library on your SharePoint site. Then copy the link to it. Next, instead of adding a news post you add a news link and paste in the URL you copied:
Currently there is no feature to schedule a news post or a news link but it's being worked on by Microsoft (https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/32233861-schedule-page-publication). So for the time being the only thing you can do is that when you create a news link it actually creates a page in the Site Pages library. So you could create the news link and immediately un-publish it & switch it back to draft, then use a flow in Power Automate to change the PromotedState to 2, i.e a published new page, every Wednesday. It's a bit of a hack though.
The content of the news link item could be sent to your manager in an email via the same flow but I'd be tempted to wait until we can schedule a news page.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User
Ldavidson what you can do is to have a Word document uploaded to a documents library on your SharePoint site. Then copy the link to it. Next, instead of adding a news post you add a news link and paste in the URL you copied:
Currently there is no feature to schedule a news post or a news link but it's being worked on by Microsoft (https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/32233861-schedule-page-publication). So for the time being the only thing you can do is that when you create a news link it actually creates a page in the Site Pages library. So you could create the news link and immediately un-publish it & switch it back to draft, then use a flow in Power Automate to change the PromotedState to 2, i.e a published new page, every Wednesday. It's a bit of a hack though.
The content of the news link item could be sent to your manager in an email via the same flow but I'd be tempted to wait until we can schedule a news page.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User
RobElliottThanks Rob that's super helpful for the new post and for the potential way round automation! Good to know it's in development. I will definitely give this a go.