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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.
Hi Colm,
You can definitely do this. Define your label in the Security & Compliance Center with the retention setting to delete after 2 years. If you want it to only apply to news articles then it's best to base it on when it was labeled rather than when it's created. This is because you only want to apply the label to new articles and not necessarily ALL site pages. You will leave it up to the end-user to apply the label to the news article thru the SharePoint UI. (below)
You will need to publish the label to all site collection(s) you want to use the label. Although you *can* default the entire site pages library to have the label, if you only want the news article pages to be deleted after 2 years, you will need the end-user to manually apply the retention label to each news article page. Note: you cannot currently see the Label property in the new Page details property, you have to be in the Site Pages library, select the news page and apply the label from the information pane.
Hope that helps.
Joanne Klein
