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SharePoint news from associated sites filter
I am building a proof of concept Intranet page for work.
Its very simple.
I have a hub site called Intranet
associated to the hub are three sites representing Departments
- Department 1 with one Member "User 1"
- Department 2 with one member "User 2"
- Department 3 with one member "User 3"
All three users are members of the Intranet Visitors group i.e. they have Read access to Intranet and can access it no problem.
All sites are Communication sites.
All three sites have a custom column called "NewsType" from which the news poster can choose a Term called NewsType. The default value is Department but the news poster can choose "Intranet" instead if they wish the news story to show on the Intranet
I have configured a News Web part with a Filter on the Intranet site to show any news item on the three Department sites if the NewsType column value has been set to "Intranet"
When I look at the Intranet site as SharePoint Admin I can see all the news posts from the department sites that have been tagged as Intranet. So that is working just fine.
But when my test users go to the Intranet site they only see news stories from their own department.
I want them to see news from all departments, even if they are not a member if that news post has been tagged with the NewsType term "Intranet"
Could I acheive that or is my proposed model fundamentally wrong?
Adam.
AdamAtTheMuseum Do all of your test users have at least READ access to all Department sites? If not, they won't be able to see pages (i.e. News) from other sites. Also, are you using Audience Targeting on the pages and do you have Audience Targeting enabled on the hub news web part? You want to be sure NOT to have Audience Targeting enabled in the main news roll up if you want all users to see all news. (You can still use Audiences on the local sites if that makes sense, you just don't want to be using Audiences as a filter in the roll up in your scenario.)
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AdamAtTheMuseum Do all of your test users have at least READ access to all Department sites? If not, they won't be able to see pages (i.e. News) from other sites. Also, are you using Audience Targeting on the pages and do you have Audience Targeting enabled on the hub news web part? You want to be sure NOT to have Audience Targeting enabled in the main news roll up if you want all users to see all news. (You can still use Audiences on the local sites if that makes sense, you just don't want to be using Audiences as a filter in the roll up in your scenario.)
- I think you have spotted the flaw in my plan. The users do not have permissions on the other Department sites
So all users will need read access to Department news.
I am going to set up another Page on each Department site called Intranet news and give all users read access to that.
Im not using Audience Targeting in this example.
