Feb 15 2018 12:10 PM
We have a requirement to expire news posts, but we would like keep them for later as archives.
Removing a post actually removes the page in Pages library:
Is there a way to un-promote a Page from the News 'feed', without deleting?
Sep 28 2018 09:47 AM
That worked perfectly thank you! I wanted to post something in the News Feed for a while-- but later take it out of there. I also needed to NOT have it in news while people were reviewing the content before I posted it. Perfect solution and now I can move things back and forth easily.
Sep 28 2018 09:50 AM
Feb 20 2019 03:03 AM
I've just followed this through to creating a new view with the Promoted State column.
Now, when I go in Quick Edit mode, the Promoted State column appears in a lighter shade than other columns, and it won't let me key in, or Flash Edit to change the 2 into a 0.
Feb 20 2019 03:19 AM
Make sure you are not using. Group By view. Quick Edit can only be used in a “flat” view.
Apr 16 2019 05:53 AM
We can now demote news or unpromote it using the following application customizer
Jul 25 2019 01:45 PM
@M365061290 Anyone know why when we "Unpublish" a news article, nothing happens? The article is still posted on the front page and visible to all, and "Publish" option is then available for that page because its been unpublished. If its still visible whether its published or unpublished, what does publishing actually mean?
Thanks
Jul 25 2019 01:58 PM
Jul 25 2019 02:03 PM
@Chris Webb Yeah its been over an hour and I've tried this before with no luck. I've just directed them to delete the pages going forward, "publish" and "unpublish" has no effect on our pages. Modern communication site.
Jul 25 2019 02:04 PM
@Deleted Give the search indexer time to run and make sure you are checking with an account that is not an editor of the site. When I unpublish, it takes a few minutes for the article to be removed. To make it easier to tell which pages are unpublished, make sure that you have Version showing up in the Pages view. Pages where the version is not .0 are either unpublished or the latest version has not been published.
Jul 25 2019 02:06 PM
@Susan Hanley Yeah I was thinking if unpublished means it unpublished the last published version. If that's the case it will roll back to an old article you would think. Then might have to resort to changing the page's "Promoted State" to 0 via Quick Edit hack.
Jul 25 2019 02:13 PM
@Turismon null I'm just surprised there is no functionality built in to manage news posts? All news will eventually need to be removed, and there solution is just to delete pages. However some obviously would like to retain pages history for relevant posts in the future, but we need to rely on a third party promote 'hack' to manage this. Strangest cms I've ever used.
Jul 25 2019 02:16 PM
Jul 25 2019 02:21 PM
@Deleted Page scheduling is coming. It was announced at SPC19. I know they talked about scheduling a page to post at a specific date and I'm hoping that there will also be a way to "un-pupblish" on a specific date as well, like there was in earlier versions of SharePoint on prem - but I'm not sure. If there is a feature you really want that isn't there, you should add it to user voice. Microsoft really pays attention to what people want - but not everything makes it to the roadmap at the same time!
Jul 25 2019 02:24 PM
@Susan Hanley That is good news, yeah I try to leave feedback from time to time and understand things are in flux with sharepoint. The publishing thing had me confused though. I will try editing promote flags to make this work. Thanks.
Jul 25 2019 02:38 PM
Jul 25 2019 02:41 PM
Jul 25 2019 02:46 PM
@Turismon null Thanks for the info. I have already added to promoted state column and see that, but I'm a bit stuck on how to change it? I have tried viewing the all the options available for that page in properties etc but don't see anywhere I can change that 2 to a 0. In searches I've found a github extensions that supposedly allows this, but seems I can do this without it? Just not sure how.
Jul 25 2019 02:52 PM
Jul 25 2019 03:01 PM
@Chris Webb ok yes I saw you refer to 'quick edit' but that must not be enabled. I don;t see a quick edit option available anywhere.
Jul 25 2019 03:07 PM