News webpart filter function via managed properties no longer working

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News webpart filter function via managed properties no longer working

Adorna 10

Microsoft has apparently made changes to the managed properties that negatively affect the news web part.

In addition to the date issue, the filtering with managed properties (boolean) is no longer working correctly for us.

Although the news pages have entered the value identically and we have not changed anything, now only a random subset of the news pages with the same filter is displayed, whereas last week it worked without any problems.

Can anyone here perhaps provide information on this subject?

KristianSmith-MSFT 531 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2025-03-28T15:24:41.7333333+00:00

Hello Adorna,

Thanks for reaching out on the Q&A Forum with your SharePoint question. It appears that this is not related to a Microsoft Open Specifications document, so I will change the tag in hopes of getting you to the correct people to help. If you believe this is a SharePoint Open Specifications issue, please provide the document in question and we'll be happy to help.

To learn more about SharePoint Open Specifications:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/sharepoint_protocols/MS-SPPROTLP/8a50af28-2b50-43d8-9c5a-3e520255ef7e

Regards,
Kristian S
Support Escalation Engineer
Microsoft Open Specifications
ChristianDunkel-4531 0 Reputation points

2025-03-30T08:13:13.3666667+00:00

We have the same issue with choice fields. We are using a choice field to categorize the news as Top News. But since few days the news webpart filter doesn't work. Is the problem known and will there be a solution in the near future? We have several customers with the same problem.

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KristianSmith-MSFT 531 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2025-03-28T15:24:41.7333333+00:00

Hello Adorna,

Thanks for reaching out on the Q&A Forum with your SharePoint question. It appears that this is not related to a Microsoft Open Specifications document, so I will change the tag in hopes of getting you to the correct people to help. If you believe this is a SharePoint Open Specifications issue, please provide the document in question and we'll be happy to help.

To learn more about SharePoint Open Specifications:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/sharepoint_protocols/MS-SPPROTLP/8a50af28-2b50-43d8-9c5a-3e520255ef7e

Regards,
Kristian S
Support Escalation Engineer
Microsoft Open Specifications
ChristianDunkel-4531 0 Reputation points

2025-03-30T08:13:13.3666667+00:00

We have the same issue with choice fields. We are using a choice field to categorize the news as Top News. But since few days the news webpart filter doesn't work. Is the problem known and will there be a solution in the near future? We have several customers with the same problem.

Answer 1

Yanli Jiang - MSFT 31,691 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @Adorna ,

Good days!

Sorry to hear that you encountered such a situation.

According to my research, this is a known issue. The reasons behind it are complicated and beyond the capabilities of the forum. We suggest you directly create a support ticket from Microsoft 365 admin center as an admin. The support team over there has the correct escalation channel, they can involve more resource and investigate the behavior from back end as fast as possible. They also can check the behavior on your end remotely. For reference: Get support - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Docs.

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Yanli Jiang - MSFT 31,691 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-04T10:05:19.6733333+00:00

Hi @Adorna ,

I didn't receive your reply. Do you have any questions about this question or my previous reply? Please reply to me at your convenience. I look forward to your reply. If my reply is helpful to you, you can mark it as the answer to help more users who encounter similar problems. Thank you.

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Brexel, Stefan 0

Yes, we´re having the same issue since a few days.

We´ve tried several things already incl. using different types of managed properties.

For some news it is working and for some not and we do not see any differences in the news pages shown compared to the ones not.

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