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Struggling to filter News from one site to another
Hello Community,
simple usecase:
I have multiple Sites in one hub called Intranet. My main hubsite is sites/intranet. I have another site called sites/IT. On that site, I've added a managed metadata coloumn to the pages library with tags like "information security", "AI", "Cybersecurity".... to tag my news on sites/IT
Now, I would like to place a news webpart on sites/intranet, which filters for
a) only news from sites/IT
b) only news with the tag "cybersecurity".
I cannot seem to find the correct coloumn to filter for, what am I doing wrong? I tried adding the "same" managed metadata coloumn to sites/intranet. "same" as in create a new coloumn, give it the same metadata choice and give it the same name. If thats the mistake, how do i really create a hub-wite Coloumn in SharePoint online?
Thanks in Advance
3 Replies
- Create a central site column on your hub site (sites/intranet) using Managed Metadata, linked to your term set (e.g., “Cybersecurity”).
- Add that site column to the Site Pages library on sites/IT.
- Tag news pages in sites/IT using that shared column (NewsTopic = Cybersecurity).
- Configure the News web part on sites/intranet:
- Source: sites/IT
- Filter: Page property → NewsTopic equals Cybersecurity
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Don't forget to mark as solution if my answer suits youYou are on the right track, but this is not going to work. Columns are not shared across sites. You need to create the same site column on each site independently. They can share the same values from the same term set, but only the term set needs to be set up centrally, not the column. Set up the site column on the IT site (make sure it is a site, not a list column) then add that column to the site pages library on the IT site. Add some articles and make sure you have NewsTopic = Cybersecurity associated to those articles and make you publish the articles. You will need to wait for the search index to run, but once it has, you can go back to the main home page and select the source for the News web part to be the IT site and then choose managed property as the filter. Page properties do not work when you are choosing a source from another site. You can then search for NewsTopic and your filter should use contains Cybersecurity and then it should work. (You won't see NewsTopic exactly - you will see something like owstaxidNewsTopic.)
Use the SharePoint news link feature + Add → Cross-site filtering for news links. You can also configure Power Automate to copy to the target site feed when news is published. Make sure that both sites have shared content types.
