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Tamras1972
Iron Contributor
Feb 06, 2023

Change Promoted State value

In Site Pages library, I need to change News (Promoted State =2) to Page (Promoted State = 0) -- however, the Promoted State column is read only.  Is there another way to change the page from News to...
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  • Adnan_Amin's avatar
    Adnan_Amin
    Feb 06, 2023
    The Promoted State column in the Site Pages library is read-only and it is designed to be set by the system. It is not recommended to manually change the value of the Promoted State column, as this could have unintended consequences.

    There is no built-in way to change the Promoted State value without using Power Automate or PowerShell. You could use Power Automate to automate the change of the Promoted State value, or use PowerShell to update the value programmatically.

    If you do not want to use Power Automate or PowerShell, you could consider creating a new page and copying the content from the News page to the new page. You can then delete the News page if needed.
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CLHess
Copper Contributor
Line # 3 gives me an error that I don't know how to resolve (I am new to PNP). I get this error
Get-PnPListItem : Cannot bind parameter 'Id' to the target. Exception setting "Id": "Cannot convert null to type
"System.Int32"."
At line:1 char:49
+ ... eItem=Get-pnpListItem -List "Site Pags" -ID $file.ListItemAllField.id
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : WriteError: (:) [Get-PnPListItem], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterBindingFailed,PnP.PowerShell.Commands.Lists.GetListItem
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nicklee88
Copper Contributor
May 03, 2023

CLHess That's correct, the $file object in the original post doesn't carry the Id of the page so it's passing null to the Get-PnpListItem cmdlet.

 

Assuming you know the name of the page you're wanting to unpublish, you'd be able to retrieve it with the code below without the need for the page Id.

# Get the desired page object
$PostName = "Some Post"
$Page = Get-PnPListItem -List "Site Pages" | Where-Object {$_.FieldValues.Title -eq $PostName}
# Change promoted state and update
$Page["PromotedState"] = 0
$Page.UpdateItem()
Invoke-PnPQuery

 

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