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Davy Loose
Brass Contributor
Aug 24, 2018
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Multiple news web parts with a filter on a homepage

Hi all, Currently we are in the middle of creating a new intranet. One of the functionalities is the ability to show news in 3 columns depending on the type of news. Therefor we created a site col...
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  • Carol DeMuth's avatar
    Carol DeMuth
    Oct 11, 2018

    I had a support ticket that is closed now.  They admitted it is a bug and have elevated it to the developers.  I found that I could use the filter on a modern team site, but not on a communications site.  We had our intranet launch so had to do so without filtering out our news. 

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Carol DeMuth
Iron Contributor
Oct 18, 2018

Thanks!!  I did not have time to re-test it until today, but it is working in my tenant as well.

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bogeorge
Copper Contributor
Jun 28, 2019

Carol DeMuthI noticed this thread is a little old but we are seeing this same issue as well.  Is the filtering still working as you expected on News?  Did Microsoft provide any insight on what they did to fix?  Just wonder if or why this might not have been rolled out to all tenants.

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    Carol DeMuth
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 25, 2019

    bogeorge We gave up since it was it was not working correctly.  Now we have all the news in one Web part - But we use the feature on the web part edit to organize the news so the most important goes to the top.  I also attended a session/lab at the SP Conference in May about site pages/designs and got some ideas from the people actually working on the pages.  This is a great reference https://sharepointlookbook.azurewebsites.net/ 
    I think they are working on improving this since some of the people gave them feed back on this.

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      bogeorge
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 29, 2019

      Carol DeMuth& MartinDAZN  I finally got to the bottom of my particular issue.  I was actually using the PnP Provisioning Engine to update home pages, including adding News web parts with filtering.  What I ultimately discovered is that there are 2 different News web parts.  One is a "Newsfeed" webpart and then there is a newer "News" webpart.  The older "Newsreel" was being added via PnP rather than newer "News" which was added via the UI.  It seems the newer version works with filtering and the old does not.  There is a nifty querystring you can add ?maintenancemode=true that allows you to see all the web part properties, json etc that helped in some of this troubleshooting.

      I ended up writing a blog post on my particular saga and in it I also linked to some GitHub issues I logged with the PnP Site Core in case you want to read up more on my journey to solve my issue.

      https://threewill.com/pnp-provisioning-news-filtering-api-troubleshooting/


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      MartinDAZN
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 25, 2019

      Carol DeMuth I've been playing with it still and it's only when the first news web part is a carousel that it messes up the 2nd news web part.

      Thanks for the info. I've seen the LookBook before, very useful!

       

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    MartinDAZN
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 25, 2019

    bogeorge  it looks like the bug is back.

    I have two news web parts on the page. The filtering of the first one is being applied to the second one.