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Copper Contributor

Nov 08, 2019

Sharepoint newsfeed is emty for external guest users

Hi, This is in SharePoint Online. I have a newsfeed on the frontpage that fetches news from multiple feeds/sites. The newsfeed works fine for all internal users. External/guest users o...

Copper Contributor

Apr 01, 2020

Andrew Hodges I experience the same problem. In my case it is 3 CommunicationSites, where one is Hub and the other 2 assosiated with the hub. Guest is invited with Read only access to all three Comm sites. Hub site got a News webpart that shows content from the other two Comm sites.

Guest can navigate two the other two Comm sites and sees all content on those. Only Hub News webpart that doesn't show any content for Guests.

My admin account can see the allocated content from the other two sites, in the Hub site News webpart feed.

KevinAerts8709

Copper Contributor

May 11, 2020

iwarzon Andrew Hodges

Hi,

I have also the same problem, I've looked a bit using Fiddler and discovered some interesting things.

To retrieve the news using the News web part, the site is using this url : /api/v1/news/sites/filtered?start=0&count=13

For an internal user, the response text will contain news articles / links created, no issues.

For an external user (guest), the response text will contain an error :

{"HttpStatus":"InternalServerError","ErrorMessage":"Task #0 Faulted, HomeAPI ErrorCode: NoSearchTaskSucceeded_ForbiddenError, Message: Not a single search task succeeded.\r\n","ErrorCode":500000,"ErrorLabel":"NoSearchTaskSucceeded_ForbiddenError"}

Is it possible to help or do something so the news would be displayed for guest users as well ?

Thank you in advance