Forum Discussion
Remove items from News on SharePoint Communication Site
You can change the promoted state to 0, which makes the site a "regular" site page, not a News page. To do that you first have to expose Promoted State in a view (choose a flat view to make it easier to edit). (Use the + in the library view and then select Promoted State and be sure to press Apply.) Once you ahve exposed the column, you can change the order by editing the view.
Then, in quick edit, change promoted state from 2 (news) to 0 (site page). I think the challenge with this approach is that the page still exists and it can still be found in search and you now have it mixed in with "regular" site pages. You could also add a column to Site Pages and "tag" the page as Archive or something like that - but unless you un-publish, it will still be visible in search.
Make sure you are not using. Group By view. Quick Edit can only be used in a “flat” view.
- Yey, it worked! Thank you all for your patience. 🙂
Helena_Starenby I believe this is the post that SusanHanley referenced. You need to edit from Column settings (in the view) rather than from Library settings.
- I did that already. 🙂
- You need to add it to the view first. Use the link to add a new modern column and then check show/hide columns. Select Promoted State and save the view. That should make it visible in the column area of Library Settings.
- I can’t find promoted state under library settings ... Can’t get it to work, too bad. I have a Communication site, if that changes anything.
Helena_Starenby There is another thread with a very simple fix. Go to library settings and click Promoted State. You don’t have to change anything- just Save. This should “light up” the ability to use Quick Edit to change the Promoted State from 2 (news) to 0 (site page).
