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John Wynne
Silver Contributor
Mar 29, 2018

SharePoint News Connector in Microsoft Teams and Hub Sites

Bit of an edge case this but I notice that the SharePoint News Connector does not pick up rolled up news from a Hub Site. I can see why this is by design but it would be useful to be able to configur...
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Mark-Kashman's avatar
Mark-Kashman
Former Employee
Mar 29, 2018
Good feedback, and will channel it to the team that is working on "company news" and our GPM who manages the work schedule with the MS Teams team. One feature coming that we shared was the ability to add a page or news as a tab in Teams - and in this case, you can bring in any news article, not just one from the connected team site; so long as Team members have permissions to view the page/news that was added a tab in their Teams channel.
Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Mar 29, 2018

Yeah, still patiently waiting for the SharePoint tab, that will be a nice addition, but having the "Notification" aspect of News would be really nice. We could always create a Flow to handle it too, but giving the users that ability through a connector is a better experience for them, than us having to apply a flow to each Team etc. Letting them select sites that everyone on the Team can see via Everyone permission or something, but then again, nothing keeping users from doing the same thing with a flow bypassing security on news :) lol.

 

Maybe just make the connector pull from other site with a big disclaimer, hey news on these sites may be private to others on your Team :P. Then you could just open it up to all, and select the hub or sites you want news to come from.  I guess another option could be a site setting to "publish" news to org regardless of the actual site/group permission. Then pickup the news from that setting. 

Now, off topic, if we could apply a flow to all Teams somehow, now we are talking :). But the deployment model on that is kind of messy currently since to my knowledge we couldn't have a system user apply flow across Teams like that.

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