Jul 26 2021 10:01 PM
Is anyone noticing major rendering issues with the SharePoint Online News web part?
The issues are similar to this post...
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint/changes-to-top-story-news-web-part/m-p/2586536
...but the impact is also on other 'Layout' types. It is almost as if Microsoft have broken their CSS or something, as the images used in news item banners are rendering as full size, rather than being cropped and having a gradient applied (to ensure text is readable in the web part).
My configuration of the web part is as shown below (or attached), and I can confirm that this issue is happening in multiple tenants, and mulitple site collections. In fact, I can't find any site collection where this issue ISN'T occurring.
Be very keen to hear of others experiencing this, and would be grateful if others could test this in their own tenants to see how widescale the problem is.
Thanks,
Joe
Jul 26 2021 10:34 PM
Jul 26 2021 10:38 PM - edited Jul 26 2021 10:41 PM
I should note, that all the tenants I have confirmed the issue is occuring on have their data location set to 'Australia'. @Juan Carlos González Martín - are you able to let me know the data location of the tenant you have tested on?
Jul 26 2021 11:20 PM
I am experiencing the same as you described and yes I'm also located in Australia. Looks like Microsoft rolled something out and broke the way news displays.
Jul 26 2021 11:33 PM
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Jul 27 2021 04:02 AM
@Joe Ayre I have a similar situation since a couple of days: images used to be scaled to fit (above the actual text of the news post), but suddenly they overlap over the text. Have to manually change image format so text is readable.
This is a major issue for our company: we use news webpart a lot and cannot afford to instruct our users to manually resize images before posting.
Jul 27 2021 06:00 AM - edited Jul 27 2021 06:02 AM
Same here (data location European Union). Temp workaround is to switch the layout to for example list, where this is not occurring.
I notice during loading of the page, it seems to initially load well (proper scale to fit), but once completely loaded it enlarges the image.
Very much interested in hearing the feedback on your case with MS!
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