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.
Yup go to site pages, then more menu, and unpublish. This might be a newer SharePoint build, but that's where it is on my tenant.
I was looking for something like [Remove from News] or [Unpromote], but Unpublish works.
Only downfall, is when I go to Publish again (we have minor / major versions turned on) to make it view-able by all readers, it adds it back to the News...
- Yeah your right, wasn't thinking it through as far as history. The only way is to change promoted State to 0 from 2. I saw Laura do it in one of her video's in the past by adding that column to the view but doesn't seem to work anymore. I'll play around and see if i can figure it out, but if you can figure out how to change that value that will remove from news. I know you can do it via Flow, so you could always create a flow button to change that if you can't find another way.
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.
- I don't see "Promoted State" as an option when adding a column. Is this something that has changed in the last three years? Why should I have to unpublish page to get it off the stupid "My News" list? The pages now are a year old and they're still appearing. How does this happen? It's ridiculous.
