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Hi all,

 

Is Flow the only way to get some form of automating sending news from SharePoint sites via email?

 

There seems to be a real disconnect around having news from different hub associated sites and no real ability to group and send this news.

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best response confirmed by David Gorman (Steel Contributor)
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Hi @David Gorman,

AFAIK - within Microsoft 365 - it is. Good article here -

https://collab365.community/using-flow-sharepoint-news-notifications/

Otherwise, it is manually emailing digests from multiple sites. I would recommend trying to consolidate news sites into either organisational news

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Use-the-News-web-part-on-a-SharePoint-page-C2DCEE50-F5D7-43...

Or consider the future Home Site

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/05/21/sharepoint-home-sites-microsoft-365-in...

As a way to make it simpler and reduce the number of flows required.

Hope that answers your question!

Best, Chris

An alternative to Flow is to use Logic Apps or Azure Functions to do that kind of automation

Thanks all. 

 

I've just informed the users to use one site for posting news so they get their digest. 

 

I'm hoping the proposed SharePoint news configuration does away with this need though.

 

SharePoint news notification configuration

Configure personal email notification settings for SharePoint news updates.

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@David Gorman if your "main" site is a Communications site you can set it as a hub site and then news from all sites in the hub will roll up to the main site and can then be sent out as an email digest. This is what we are trialling at the moment with news from about 12 sites in our hub. The image below shows the selection of news from 3 of them.

Rob
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Thanks @RobElliott 

 

This is the direction we want to go but I would really like the digest piece to be automated and sent out. 

 

Would be really nice if you if could specify "create a news digest every week" and send out.

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best response confirmed by David Gorman (Steel Contributor)
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Hi @David Gorman,

AFAIK - within Microsoft 365 - it is. Good article here -

https://collab365.community/using-flow-sharepoint-news-notifications/

Otherwise, it is manually emailing digests from multiple sites. I would recommend trying to consolidate news sites into either organisational news

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Use-the-News-web-part-on-a-SharePoint-page-C2DCEE50-F5D7-43...

Or consider the future Home Site

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/05/21/sharepoint-home-sites-microsoft-365-in...

As a way to make it simpler and reduce the number of flows required.

Hope that answers your question!

Best, Chris

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