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Roadmap question - 21047 "SharePoint News Digest Email"
Thanks for the info John_Sanders, I have a couple of other q's that I havent been able to find the answers for... Are there any help guides on the news digest? Is there a plan to enable rich text in the header section or the intro text box? Would love to be able to add an image in the header section so it takes the focus away (a little) from the sharepoint icon that will confuse staff! I'm also keen to understand how others are managing permission on who can send the digest (this may not be the right forum for the business type q's!) In general would love a little more info above and beyond https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-and-send-a-news-digest-42efc3c6-605f-4a9a-85d5-1f9ff46019bf?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
MicrosoftAt the moment, we aren't planning on supporting rich text in the summary area, but if we hear enough feedback that a desired upgrade we can look into it. Right now it reuses page descriptions, which are plain text. Similarly the images come from the various news Para, but the "chrome" of the digest is part of our template and not editable. I've heard from a few folks that they'd love to have an ability to modify those images, but we haven't invested in that yet. I'm curious what you're thinking for the permissions. Today anyone that can edit a site (eg create news) can send a digest. Is there a need to lock that down more? If so, can you help me understand it better?
Thanks for your response - the rationale for permissions is to enable us to replace an existing company wide and departmental email newsletters with the news digest without having everyone in the company being able to send the newsletter. Current requirement is to try and reduce the number of emails therefore only allow groups within the comms area to be able to send digests out - central comms to be able to send to all and divisional comms being able to send to their respective area. This, however could be managed through who can access the all company distribution list.... we are also eagerly waiting on the ability to add a link to display intro text / title / image of news published externally as this will reduce the amount of duplication of effort (creating news externally and then again internally to be shared in a staff newsletter)...
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we have very similar requirements
