How to Demote News page from Team site and Remove it from Hub News Rollup

Thanks for this guide.

Failed at step 6 - Quick edit view to change the value of Promoted State. The box is greyed out and can't be edited.

Also tried "group by" Promoted State and drag the page to a different group - fails.

Any other ways to change the value?

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I also got the grey box which doesn't let me update the promoted state using the quick edit but i was able to use PnP powershell to update the Promoted state:

Set-PnPListItem -List "SitePages" -Identity <add ID of the page here> -Values @{"PromotedState" = "0"}

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-pnp/set-pnplistitem?view=sharepoint-ps

Just tried this, and it worked!

https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/a/290580

1. Go to the Site Pages library.
2. Click Add column.
3. Select Show/hide columns.
4. Select Promoted State.
5. Click Apply.
6. Click the Promoted State column heading.
7. Hover over Column settings.
8. Select Edit.
9. Without doing anything in the Edit column pane, click Save.
10. Select the line for a page (i.e. no need to open the page).
11. Open the information pane.
12. Under Properties, change the promoted state.
13. Republish the page or repost the news post.

Update (Nov. 2, 2022): I noticed recently that the ability to edit certain columns (e.g. Promoted State [see step 8 above] or First Published Date) has been removed on certain sites, so the instructions above may not work! When I first encountered this a couple of days ago, with the First Published Date column, I asked a Microsoft 365 specialist in my company to help me run a script in Windows PowerShell ISE as an administrator to make changes to that column. He needed to grant me access on the back end, download certain packages to PowerShell, and run a script he wrote. I tweaked his script below, so it should make changes to the Promoted State column if you follow the steps below.

1. In your Site Pages library, show the ID column.
2. Note the ID number of the page whose state you'd like to change.
3. In the script below, just change lines 1, 3, and 4:
   1. Line 1: Enter the URL of the site on which the page is stored
   2. Line 3: Enter the ID number of the page whose state you'd like to change
   3. Line 4: Enter the desired promoted state (i.e. 0 for a page, 2 for a news post)
4. Run the script.

$SiteURL = "<Insert SharePoint site URL here>"
$ListName= "Site Pages"
$NewsID = 86
$PromotedState = "0"

Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -Interactive

if (-not (Get-PnPContext)) {
    Write-Host "Error connecting to SharePoint Online, unable to establish context" -foregroundcolor black -backgroundcolor Red
    return
}
else{

   Set-PnPListItem -List $ListName -Identity $NewsID -Values @{"PromotedState"=$PromotedState;}  -UpdateType SystemUpdate
    Write-Host $PromotedState
    Write-Host $NewsID
}

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We can demote or unpromote news using following list view extension

https://sharepointhd.wordpress.com/2019/04/15/extensionlist-view-command-set-for-unpromotting-a-news-or-unplublish-a-news/

I got the same problem as Keren Hopkins, is it possible to revert the All pages view to its default stage?

Deleted  It seems that It depends on site template.

The only  sites which I can modify "Promoted Status" column on are Team sites connected to O365 Groups (GROUP#0) and Communication sites(SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0), but I cannot do that on classic team site (STS#0) and team sites which is unconnected to O365 Groups (STS#3) .

Same problem cannot demote - greyed out and read-only.  Nightmare, now it appears only option is to delete the page.