Forum Discussion
Hansjörg Stewering
Oct 02, 2017Brass Contributor
Access "News from Sites" programmatically
I would like to reuse the "News from Sites" news aggregation from the SharePoint Homepage in my own site collection. Is there a way to programmatically get all news from SharePoint sites that the cur...
Jon Miller
Oct 03, 2017Copper Contributor
I found that there is a crawled property ("PromotedState") which you can then map in search schema to a Refinable property. Then you can just use this in Content by Search web parts. The 'News from Sites' content type has a value of '2' in the PromotedState property, so you can filter your search results to that and return all news pages. Hope that helps.
Hansjörg Stewering
Oct 04, 2017Brass Contributor
Excellent, thank you.
Is there any way to use a content by search in modern site pages?