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Communications Site "Promote Page" feature flaw

Brass Contributor

Hello,

 

We are currently developing our Intranet using the Modern Communications site template.  Overall, we are pleased with the functionality but I have noticed that when a user clicks 'Promote' on a page, there is no way to demote it afterward.  

 

I have been able to create a custom column the calculates the 'promotedstate' property but I am unable to change the value from 2 (promoted) to 0 (not promoted).

 

Does anyone have any experience or insight?  I currently have several pages that were promoted in testing which should not have been promoted and as the Site Collection Administrator I would really love the ability to demote pages if they were promoted in error.

 

21 Replies

The numbers used for now are 0, 1 and 2

  • 0 is a published 'site page' that is NOT considered 'News' and does not end up in the news roll up (ie, your home page)
  • 1 is a news page that is not published yet
  • 2 is a news page that is published or a news link (from the News roll up + button)
All these were such good tips. Thank you to Sue and Khaleel7585!