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john john
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Jan 11, 2019

"Require Content approval" is not working on modern pages inside the "Site pages" library

we have a classic team site collection which have the publishing features enabled at the site collection and site level. now inside the "Site Pages" library i have enabled the "Required content appr...
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Eva Vogel's avatar
Eva Vogel
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Jan 11, 2019
Hello, maybe there is some trouble in different inherited permission rules. Please check, if someone has different permission settings in some files... the mess starts when one file is shared by many accounts, who haven’t the same permission levels in this library. And so on...
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john john
Steel Contributor
Jan 11, 2019
Eva Vogel wrote:
Hello, maybe there is some trouble in different inherited permission rules. Please check, if someone has different permission settings in some files... the mess starts when one file is shared by many accounts, who haven’t the same permission levels in this library. And so on...

Eva Vogel

now if i check the page permission, and it inherit the permission from the "site pages" library,, and the site admin is being shown inside the shared with. but the site admin can not view this page, as it is in draft or in pending status, and these draft/pending pages can ONLY not be viewed by the author.

so seems to me modern pages does not respect any setting inside the "site pages" library, also the "Submit for approval" button which will be shown when we enable the "Require content approval", doe snot have any effect, and when the user click on this button, nothing will mainly happen, and the button will still be shown as is..

  • Eva Vogel's avatar
    Eva Vogel
    Steel Contributor
    Jan 11, 2019
    And can you see this page s you are the website collection admin or SharePoint Admin? See my screenshot to set back the draft.


    Or: go to the Version history of the Problem page in the page Library and set it back to a previous one...
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      john john
      Steel Contributor
      Jan 11, 2019
      Eva Vogel wrote:
      And can you see this page s you are the website collection admin or SharePoint Admin? See my screenshot to set back the draft.


      Or: go to the Version history of the Problem page in the page Library and set it back to a previous one...

      Thanks for the reply. now i am the sharepoint admin, global admin, site collection admin + i am inside the site owner group. and i can NOT see others modern pages that have been saved as draft using this button:-

      also from the screen shot you provided i can see that you are using the classic interface (classic page), while my problem is regarding modern pages. and in all cases i can not restore previous version of the page, as draft pages will have version =1, so there is not any previous versions. i hope this explain my case.