Editable publish date
Provide an editable field for publish date of pages and news articles. As we migrate content from another platform it's important to maintain existing "published" dates
TreVon McKay
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38 comments
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Anonymous
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This is an important feature to help us migrate content from on-premise to SharePoint online. We can flag something "from the archives" but this doesn't really help with old content popping up in news feeds.
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Mr
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Please, please, please solve this basic feature... I want to move my old intranet to SP but don't want all the old news to get new publish dates. I should be able to choose publish date and rearrange my news as I please. Even WP has that feature..
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Kristen Knox
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This is a basic, core feature that needs to be added ASAP. We maintain all of our press on Sharepoint and are unable to add chronologically since news is reported from all over the world.
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Roanna
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We also need the published date to actually show up on the news pages and not just in the at-a-glance news webpart list. Why this isn't a default option for a *news* webpart - for which dates are a critical aspect - is beyond me. We can't seem to get it to display with the very hidden toggle, either. Hell, half the time it's impossible to find the toggle option.
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Kate
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It would be great if we had the option to turn off the auto update of the published date on pages. I use SPO to publish a newsletter. If I go in and update a section, I don't want it to update the entire publication date. We lose record of when the newsletter was first published.
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Babak Danyal
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Hi Alan, First published date is editable programmatically and the published date in the post gets updated every time you update the content.
News scheduling was rolled out as Targeted release in July 2020, if your tenant has set to receive targeted release then you should have this feature already. see here for more details : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/schedule-a-sharepoint-page-or-news-post-to-go-live-at-a-specific-time-4b81873c-9bbc-4307-b7ea-7b6662ff1af2 -
Babak Danyal
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Hi Anonymous,
What you are looking for is already there, as soon as you update the news post it gets the new publishing date. Publishing date is visible on the news post but you can decide if you want to display it or not.
See here for more details: https://babakdanyal.com/show-hide-enable-disable-or-update-the-news-publishing-date-in-sharepoint/I have tried to replicate the January1,1 issue but I wasn't able to get it. If you can share the steps, I may be able to help you out with that. Sometimes it takes time to reflect the date change so it could be that.
If you don't want to use or have access to powershell you can hide the out of the box date and use the Text above title property to update your dates every time you update the content but I won't recommend it as it is already happening out of the box.
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Alan
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Carrying out an appraisal on SharePoint v a Joomla Intranet and realised there is no way to "set" a publishing date on news posts in SharePoint. Whilst I have found some positives to switch from a CMS to SharePoint the lack of editable and scheduled publish dates is certainly a negative. I have read somewhere that scheduling is being tested. If that is the case it would be the right time to look at this issue and roll the 2 out together?
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Anonymous
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Need for the publish date of news posts to be refreshed and/or have the ability to edit. Sometimes I re-use a news post but update some of the content. However, when it has an old date, readers think 'there's nothing new' and skip right over, or think that the news is not being kept current. Also, I just updated a post and the date reads "January 1,1" - what does that even mean? And some of us can't use power shell or 3rd party vendors.
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Babak Danyal
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We can use power shell to update the original published date field. Have a look at this blog post:
https://babakdanyal.com/edit-original-publishing-date-in-sharepoint-news-posts/ -
Anonymous
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Sharegate, an aftermarket tool to transfer SharePoint content, can do this. Note that it takes some time for the date to show up as changed, but it works. See here: https://sympmarc.com/2019/04/09/back-filling-sharepoint-news-with-sharegate/
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Stacey
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MUCH NEEDED FOR THE REPOSTING OF OLDER ARTICLES
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Michel Werner
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This is really needed, also for content migration from an old SharePoint on premise... Any updates?
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Dsanto
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When will this be improved?
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Anonymous
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This should be a basic feature. If I had my way, I would not use this product until this feature was available
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Vincent
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A mandatoty feature for those who manages news and publications. "creted date" and "Modified date" are technical fields for admins, "Pulication date" is the only field that will be usefull for users.
--> Checlk with your gold Partner "INFEENY" and its solution "MOZZAIK365": they have depliyed this feature ! -
Luke Anderson
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This feature is a must have!
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Tom Atkinson
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I agree with this. No idea why you can't already do this. Pretty unhelpful for migrations.
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Anonymous
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Editable published dates would be very valuable as we migrate content. I understand the value of an original date being preserved so perhaps adding an option to display a "recently updated" date and the ability to prioritize this is search over original date of publication?
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Alvaro Canga-Ruiz
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Particularly important, as every minor modification to a site updates the displayed publish date, making it misleading.
