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Change News Page to Site Page
Ok, I finally got this to work without Using flow. Do the following.
1.Go to Site Pages on your Site.
2.Change your view to "All Items"
3.Now Click the + to add a column to view, and select Show/Hide Columns
4.Check Promoted State column and click "Apply" at the top.
5.Now Click the view drop down and Save view as
6.Name it "All Items and State"
7.Now you should be able to click "Quick Edit" and then Promoted State column will be exposed to change the value. Change the page you no longer want to be news from 2 to 0 and Click exit and your page can now be a Site page again.
I just worked with MS support on this, what a frustrating experience!
They also couldn't fix it. We started a reindex of the hub site, so I'm waiting overnight to see if that helps things along.
I may end up simply deleting the pages and recreating them as site pages from the very beginning.
Hey Deleted I figured this out since I was having same issue with the news not going away off my Hub site.
So changing the Promoted State only won't remove from Hub news. For whatever reason it doesn't count as whatever that news index uses to remove. What i did thou was change the page to promoted state 0. Then edited the page, and republished it. After I did a republish, it made the Reindex for the hub news update and remove the news article after 5-10 minutes or whatever.
Deleted wrote:Hey Deleted I figured this out since I was having same issue with the news not going away off my Hub site.
So changing the Promoted State only won't remove from Hub news. For whatever reason it doesn't count as whatever that news index uses to remove. What i did thou was change the page to promoted state 0. Then edited the page, and republished it. After I did a republish, it made the Reindex for the hub news update and remove the news article after 5-10 minutes or whatever.
Amazing job figuring that out! that absolutely cleared up the issue in less than 2 minutes!
I opened a case through my VAR on this issue. They brought MS support onto the case. Over the course of several days, they never solved this or suggested anything helpful.
I just spent hours (trouble shooting, documenting, emailing, discussing, emailing again) on this very issue: "Why does a news article persist in the hub news?"
Luckily, I had bookmarked this thread months ago. I pulled it up today because the MS engineer needed to know how to edit Promoted State. I glanced through the posts again and saw this reference to hub news not updating.
So, yes, I'm in the middle of a ticket for an issue that was reported two years ago!!
Why hasn't this been fixed?
There could be a perfectly valid reason why it hasn't been fixed. If that's the case, Microsoft needs to provide better documentation. Why do I have to search and search for things like:
- what is promoted state?
- what do the different values mean?
- how do I show the column?
- why can't I edit via Quick Edit (but only sometimes)?
- how to remove news from hub news?
I'm clearly venting here, but I would also like to see a response from Microsoft about plans for fixing the problem and updating documentation.
Does anyone know if this is on UserVoice or has been submitted elsewhere? I'd like to upvote.
Thanks.
