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Deleted
Apr 10, 2018

Change News Page to Site Page

Hi All,   I'm looking for a method of changing a News Page to a Site Page.  These pages were created prior to the hub sites being rolled out, now they are showing up in the News sections of all pag...
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  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Apr 10, 2018

    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.

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npajak22
Copper Contributor
Sep 15, 2022

Hello,

 

Have there been any recent developments in this? I setup my page as indicated in the solution here but the column is now greyed out and says it is a read-only field. 

 

Thank you,

Nicole

  • ganeshsanap's avatar
    ganeshsanap
    MVP
    Sep 16, 2022

    npajak22 Try solution given in my above response using SharePoint JSON formatting. Let us know if it works for you.

    Please consider giving a Like if my post helped you in any way.

    • c00p82's avatar
      c00p82
      Copper Contributor
      Sep 23, 2022

      ganeshsanap you are amazing for sharing this - thank you so much

       

      Start Here:

      • Site Contents 
      • Site Pages 
      • Change View Option to All Pages

      Turn on the Promoted State Column: 

      • Add this column by selecting + sign next to the last column displayed in the header
      • Then select Show/hide columns
      • Scroll down to Promoted State and check the box and click Apply

      Add JSON:

      • Go into edit in grid view
      • Click promoted state column arrow - column settings - format this column 
      • Apply formatting to - select Promoted State 
      • Delete code that is there and paste this code found in link below into it
      • Save - refresh page 
      • Click ellipsis - Demote (Change to 0:Page) 

      Finish It:

      • THEN GO TO THE PAGE AND REPUBLISH IT TO TAKE AFFECT

      https://github.com/pnp/List-Formatting/blob/master/column-samples/promotedstate-demote-news/promotedstate-demote-news.json 

       

      https://github.com/pnp/List-Formatting/tree/master/column-samples/promotedstate-demote-news 

      • npajak22's avatar
        npajak22
        Copper Contributor
        Oct 11, 2022

        c00p82 Thank you for your reply. I am able to follow the instructions up until the Add JSON: step. Then I don't understand how to add the script to the page. Do you have any pointers? 

    • Mel_C13's avatar
      Mel_C13
      Brass Contributor
      Nov 08, 2023
      I have been using this JSON for months now and it was working great. But now, even though the promoted state says 0 and we have unpublished the page, the pages are still showing up in the news webpart. It seems that the only way for us to get them to go away is to delete them.
      Does anyone have any suggestions?
  • brewsa's avatar
    brewsa
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 15, 2022
    The column formatting solution above from @thechriskent (posted above by ganeshsanap) worked for me in a few seconds.

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