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.
Yes, we want it in search, we want users to be able to look back at the past news, or at least that is how it works now in our current instance.
We also keep everything and might need to think about letting old news 'go away'...
I will look into FLOW to unpublish by changing that column from 2 to 0.
thanks
For 90% of the items, allowing rotation would work, but there are current news that our client only wants to display for a day, then remove it. (never simple), so we will look into a small Flow to pause until expiration Date, then set 2 to 0.