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.
Saving the view kept the columns in view for future, but as Christopher mentioned, that removes the quickedit button.
It's on the System Status page in the 365 admin portal under SharePoint Online.Thanks for the insight Chris, do you happen to have a link that discusses this more in detail? I had to re-align a few things recently due to this issue going on and any info from MS would be helpful.
I am hoping that they improve the Highlighted Content web with changing the ability on controlling the look and feel. I had to recently write an extension to hide something on that web-part that I wish I could remove out of the box.
- There is a known issue with page indexing right now they are testing a fix for. That is what's causing all this strange behavior with news pages showing / not showing including highlighted content web part.
If you are adding the PromotedState to the ByAuthor view, you will not get the Quick Edit, since Quick edit will not show up on view with Grouped items. You should first select the All Items view, then add the PromotedState, then save your view to something new.
Also note that I do not thin that the Promoted State is working any more for news articles, at least on a communications site I am working on. I have changed Pages to PromotedState=0, however they still show up in my news reel. The only way to hide them is to unpublish or delete. I have also recently noticed issues with the Highlighted Content web part also and it's query rules.
