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Communication Site - Highlighted Content > Pages > Managed Property Empty
Unfortunately, you hit the limitation with that web part - no ability to do an AND connection with two different columns .... for now.
Thanks for this thread, lots of good helpful information here. Just to report my experience. We have a Communications Site where News pages are published in the Site Pages library as a central repository for other site collections to pull from. I set up the Managed Property + Highlighted Content web part machinery outlined here and got it all working as intended. No small task. However today one of our Team Site owners found her HC webpart will not populate the Managed property name dropdown even using exact same settings as the other 3 site collections where things are working fine (including another Team Site). Why would this fail for one site when several others are working?
As it turns out, the one site affected was just the newest site... after more troubleshooting we found the HC / Managed property setup stopped working for all new sites and all new web part installs on existing sites. I wound up requesting a Reindex of the Pages library where the news stories live, and that fixed it for all.
It should work the same on all sites. I would make sure that there aren't any differences on the sites.