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.
We can now demote news or unpromote it using the following application customizer
https://sharepointhd.wordpress.com/2019/04/15/extensionlist-view-command-set-for-unpromotting-a-news-or-unplublish-a-news/
M365061290 Anyone know why when we "Unpublish" a news article, nothing happens? The article is still posted on the front page and visible to all, and "Publish" option is then available for that page because its been unpublished. If its still visible whether its published or unpublished, what does publishing actually mean?
Thanks
Deleted Give the search indexer time to run and make sure you are checking with an account that is not an editor of the site. When I unpublish, it takes a few minutes for the article to be removed. To make it easier to tell which pages are unpublished, make sure that you have Version showing up in the Pages view. Pages where the version is not .0 are either unpublished or the latest version has not been published.
Susan_Hanley Yeah I was thinking if unpublished means it unpublished the last published version. If that's the case it will roll back to an old article you would think. Then might have to resort to changing the page's "Promoted State" to 0 via Quick Edit hack.
- Did you give it time for the search indexer to remove it? It takes up to 15 minutes sometimes to remove it since those news web parts are based on search index.
ChrisWebbTech Yeah its been over an hour and I've tried this before with no luck. I've just directed them to delete the pages going forward, "publish" and "unpublish" has no effect on our pages. Modern communication site.
