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karen_dredske
Oct 15, 2025Iron Contributor
Strange Auto-Publishing Behavior in a Homesite
I have a client who is having the strangest behavior on their homesite. If they go to add a news article - whether from the News web part or from the + New drop-down menu, once the news post page is ...
DaveMehr365
Oct 16, 2025MVP
Microsoft has changed the process, maybe it has an impact to your behaviour.
From an Microsoft article https://support.microsoft.com/office/create-and-use-modern-pages-on-a-sharepoint-site-b3d46deb-27a6-4b1e-87b8-df851e503dec?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004845 :
Note: Instead of Save as draft , you may see Save and close in the command bar. This means your organization has pages coauthoring capability where you can invite other authors to edit the same page or news post at the same time. You can learn more about that here .
You can find more details about Co-Authroing in this article: https://support.microsoft.com/office/collaborate-on-sharepoint-pages-and-news-with-coauthoring-91d7dc25-37c3-44a4-99da-f552e0f9cfe9?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004845
Best, Dave