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SharePoint News
Hi all,
Is Flow the only way to get some form of automating sending news from SharePoint sites via email?
There seems to be a real disconnect around having news from different hub associated sites and no real ability to group and send this news.
Hi DaithiG,
AFAIK - within Microsoft 365 - it is. Good article here -
https://collab365.community/using-flow-sharepoint-news-notifications/
Otherwise, it is manually emailing digests from multiple sites. I would recommend trying to consolidate news sites into either organisational news
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Use-the-News-web-part-on-a-SharePoint-page-C2DCEE50-F5D7-434B-8CB9-A7FEEFD9F165
Or consider the future Home Site
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/05/21/sharepoint-home-sites-microsoft-365-innovations-intelligent-workplace/
As a way to make it simpler and reduce the number of flows required.
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris
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- An alternative to Flow is to use Logic Apps or Azure Functions to do that kind of automation
Hi DaithiG,
AFAIK - within Microsoft 365 - it is. Good article here -
https://collab365.community/using-flow-sharepoint-news-notifications/
Otherwise, it is manually emailing digests from multiple sites. I would recommend trying to consolidate news sites into either organisational news
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Use-the-News-web-part-on-a-SharePoint-page-C2DCEE50-F5D7-434B-8CB9-A7FEEFD9F165
Or consider the future Home Site
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/05/21/sharepoint-home-sites-microsoft-365-innovations-intelligent-workplace/
As a way to make it simpler and reduce the number of flows required.
Hope that answers your question!
Best, ChrisThanks all.
I've just informed the users to use one site for posting news so they get their digest.
I'm hoping the proposed SharePoint news configuration does away with this need though.
SharePoint news notification configuration
Configure personal email notification settings for SharePoint news updates.
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DaithiG if your "main" site is a Communications site you can set it as a hub site and then news from all sites in the hub will roll up to the main site and can then be sent out as an email digest. This is what we are trialling at the moment with news from about 12 sites in our hub. The image below shows the selection of news from 3 of them.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Flow Community Super User
