issue when updating new page promoted state in microsoft flow

[HarshD]

Trying to update news page promoted state, but it is not working

and flow runs successfully, but state is not updated

[v-bacao-msft]

Hi @HarshD ,

I used a similar method on my side to configure Flow, which can update PromotedState.

The only difference with you is to change the double quotes to single quotes in Body, as below:

Please take a try again.

Edit:

I also tested it with double quotes, and it can also update the value of PromotedState.

Best Regards,

[Anonymous]

@v-bacao-msft -

I am running  into the exact issue as @HarshD, successfuly run with same 204 results but not actually updating the PromotedState status.   Tried single & double quotes, neither with any result. Any ideas or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[HarshD]

I tested it with both double and single quotes and it is not working.

Can you tell me did you try this in targeted release ?

[HarshD]

I am still facing the issue in targeted release.Let me try in production as well 

[Anonymous]

I have only tried in production.

[HarshD]

Yes, it tried in prod as well and it doesnt works

[HarshD]

I created an SPFX webpart , and updated it using simple rest api, and it worked

[Anonymous]

@HarshD  Unfortunately that is beyond my skillset, I guess I will have to try something else.  Glad you got it working.

[HarshD]

We can demote or unpromote news using following list view extension

https://sharepointhd.wordpress.com/2019/04/15/extensionlist-view-command-set-for-unpromotting-a-news...

[rabiawilliams]

Just use below api  to Promote News , i.e to set PromotedState=2

[jvdlinden]

@v-bacao-msft , @rabiawilliams 

Nope, none of them works... unfortunately

[Gristy]

PromoteToNews works fine to promote the article, but there isn't a way to step it back.

[Gristy · Accepted solution]

Managed to demote a news article by using the method listed above by @HarshD  to change from 2 to 0 or 1 whatever you want.

Originally Promoted State was not read only which is why it is working for some people, but for quite some time now the field has been Read Only.

Using PNP PowerShell you can set the field to not read only.

• set-pnpfield -Identity "Promoted State" -List "Site Pages" -Values @{ReadOnlyField=$false}

Hopefully this does not automatically set back - but i doubt it will.

[tradeit]

I know this is an old post, but the problem of making a news post into a 'normal' post still exists.

The PnP PowerShell command gives me an error on the 'List' entry

Set-PnPField : Unable to retrieve the list specified using the List parameter
Parameter name: List

Odd that there still isn't a simple solution - just allow admins to change the promoted status.