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Sharepoint newsfeed is emty for external guest users
kjako I'm running into this same issue. We have a hub site with news that is delivered to connected sites. External visitors are in the Visitor group at the hub site, and are part of a custom group with custom permission levels at the connected sites (upload without delete).
The external users don't see the news on the hub, nor on the connected sites.
Were you able to fix this?
Thank you.
DonnaSteinwand The web part doesn’t utilize search for fetching the news. If you check Fiddler while the web part loads, there’s no request to the search API that’d get the news. In fact, the web part makes a request to https://northeurope3-sphomep.svc.ms/api/v1/news/sites?start=0&count=13 to fetch the news, which doesn’t return anything for guests. This was also confirmed by the premier support: The issue that you see here on the news web part is not related to overall search but to a specific call that is made by the web part. It uses a call that does not work with guest users. The current behavior is by design. The required code changes to change the behavior are outside the scope of a fix and can only be considered for the long term. At the moment there is no timeframe when this behavior will change.
- I got a response again yesterday that the next support level would be involved in this case.
Today I made a test again with a guest user and guess what? Events and News are rolling up again from hub associated sites in the web parts of the hub. Bstensberg Thank you for getting back to me. Would the highlighted content web part work? I'll test it tonight, but using that web part allows me to select "news" from the hub. Thanks again.
We have the same issue since approx. 10 days, also for the events web part.
It seems to work with highlighted content web part, the guest user can see all news, but it looks different then the news web part, the site name for example is missing. I have a ticket open @ MS Support since a few days, sure they will come up with this workaround.I will let you know what response I got from there...
- No response so far from MS Support since one week.
- Unfortunately I wouldn't know. Sorry.