Is there a flow when a new list item is created it creates a news post with the info from that list item?
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Hi @PrasadAthalye ,
Sorry to bud in. But I think @thressac is talking about SharePoint news posts (pages with promoted state of 1 or 2).
If you are talking about another type of news posts, ignore my example below 😁
You could create these via the SharePoint REST API. Below is an example.
1. Add a when an item is created trigger action. Configure it to use a list.
In my example this CMS_NewsPosts list has two columns, Title and Description (both single line of text type).
2. Add a Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action. For the creating of the draft news post. Use the site address field for the destination site of the page.
URI
/_api/sitepages/pages
Body
{"__metadata":{"type":"SP.Publishing.SitePage"},"PromotedState":1,"PageLayoutType":"Article"}
3. Add a Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action. For the checkout of the page.
URI
/_api/sitepages/pages(@{outputs('Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint')?['body']?['d']['Id']})/checkoutpage
4. Add a Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action. The title and the text within the page are set.
In this example I am using the Title and a Description field from the trigger action.
URI
_api/sitepages/pages(@{outputs('Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint')?['body']?['d']['Id']})/SavePageAsDraft
Body
{
"LayoutWebpartsContent":"[{\"id\":\"cbe7b0a9-3504-44dd-a3a3-0e5cacd07788\",\"instanceId\":\"cbe7b0a9-3504-44dd-a3a3-0e5cacd07788\",\"title\":\"\\n Title area\\n \",\"description\":\"\\n Title area description\\n \",\"audiences\":[],\"serverProcessedContent\":{\"htmlStrings\":{},\"searchablePlainTexts\":{},\"imageSources\":{\"imageSource\":\"\"},\"links\":{},\"customMetadata\":{\"imageSource\":{}}},\"dataVersion\":\"1.4\",\"properties\":{\"imageSourceType\":2,\"title\":\"Test\",\"textAlignment\":\"Left\",\"showPublishDate\":false,\"authors\":[{\"id\":\"\",\"upn\":\"\",\"email\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"role\":\"\"}],\"showTopicHeader\":false,\"authorByline\":[\"\"],\"layoutType\":\"CutInShape\",\"titlePlaceholder\":\"Name your news post\",\"topicHeader\":\"\"},\"reservedHeight\":356}]","CanvasContent1":"[{\"controlType\":4,\"id\":\"1212fc8d-dd6b-408a-8d5d-9f1cc787efbb\",\"position\":{\"controlIndex\":2,\"sectionIndex\":1,\"sectionFactor\":12,\"zoneIndex\":1,\"layoutIndex\":1},\"addedFromPersistedData\":true,\"innerHTML\":\"@{triggerOutputs()?['body/Description']}\",\"emphasis\":{}},{\"controlType\":0,\"pageSettingsSlice\":{\"isDefaultDescription\":true,\"isDefaultThumbnail\":true}}]","Title":"@{triggerOutputs()?['body/Title']}"}
Can you please clarify what do you mean by a new post? Are you referring to a Twitter post?
Hi @PrasadAthalye ,
Sorry to bud in. But I think @thressac is talking about SharePoint news posts (pages with promoted state of 1 or 2).
If you are talking about another type of news posts, ignore my example below 😁
You could create these via the SharePoint REST API. Below is an example.
1. Add a when an item is created trigger action. Configure it to use a list.
In my example this CMS_NewsPosts list has two columns, Title and Description (both single line of text type).
2. Add a Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action. For the creating of the draft news post. Use the site address field for the destination site of the page.
URI
/_api/sitepages/pages
Body
{"__metadata":{"type":"SP.Publishing.SitePage"},"PromotedState":1,"PageLayoutType":"Article"}
3. Add a Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action. For the checkout of the page.
URI
/_api/sitepages/pages(@{outputs('Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint')?['body']?['d']['Id']})/checkoutpage
4. Add a Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action. The title and the text within the page are set.
In this example I am using the Title and a Description field from the trigger action.
URI
_api/sitepages/pages(@{outputs('Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint')?['body']?['d']['Id']})/SavePageAsDraft
Body
{
"LayoutWebpartsContent":"[{\"id\":\"cbe7b0a9-3504-44dd-a3a3-0e5cacd07788\",\"instanceId\":\"cbe7b0a9-3504-44dd-a3a3-0e5cacd07788\",\"title\":\"\\n Title area\\n \",\"description\":\"\\n Title area description\\n \",\"audiences\":[],\"serverProcessedContent\":{\"htmlStrings\":{},\"searchablePlainTexts\":{},\"imageSources\":{\"imageSource\":\"\"},\"links\":{},\"customMetadata\":{\"imageSource\":{}}},\"dataVersion\":\"1.4\",\"properties\":{\"imageSourceType\":2,\"title\":\"Test\",\"textAlignment\":\"Left\",\"showPublishDate\":false,\"authors\":[{\"id\":\"\",\"upn\":\"\",\"email\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"role\":\"\"}],\"showTopicHeader\":false,\"authorByline\":[\"\"],\"layoutType\":\"CutInShape\",\"titlePlaceholder\":\"Name your news post\",\"topicHeader\":\"\"},\"reservedHeight\":356}]","CanvasContent1":"[{\"controlType\":4,\"id\":\"1212fc8d-dd6b-408a-8d5d-9f1cc787efbb\",\"position\":{\"controlIndex\":2,\"sectionIndex\":1,\"sectionFactor\":12,\"zoneIndex\":1,\"layoutIndex\":1},\"addedFromPersistedData\":true,\"innerHTML\":\"@{triggerOutputs()?['body/Description']}\",\"emphasis\":{}},{\"controlType\":0,\"pageSettingsSlice\":{\"isDefaultDescription\":true,\"isDefaultThumbnail\":true}}]","Title":"@{triggerOutputs()?['body/Title']}"}
@Expiscornovus, your post has been very helpful. I'm having a hard time with the formatting on the news post.
Can you offer some pointers?
And is there a way to auto post the news post?
Thank you for everything!
Hi @thressac,
Apologies for the delayed reply.
You can use the following HTTP request to publish the news post.
Hi @Expiscornovus ,
I am getting error as :
The property '__metadata' does not exist on type 'SP.Publishing.SitePage'. Make sure to only use property names that are defined by the type.
clientRequestId: b9b3295e-01b5-433d-9822-00211bbbafc8
serviceRequestId: c94be69f-c0b5-c000-499b-0b63ef4b74ea
Hi @Expiscornovus Sorry for disturbing. Your solution really helped me in doing the bits I wanted for my NEWs post.
Just a tiny questions...How Can I add background Image to the news page.
I added link to the image source in the json but nothing happened , probably I am banging my head searching for the script.
Your help will be immensely appreciated/. Thanks
Hi @Kumars100 probably You might have figured it out by now, if not I also came across same and I typed exactly same like @Expiscornovus with space after json; odata
Hi @schoden,
Just had a quick look. It should be possible by updating the control like this in the CanvasContent1 section of the json.
{\"controlType\":4,\"id\":\"1212fc8d-dd6b-408a-8d5d-9f1cc787efbb\",\"position\":{\"controlIndex\":2,\"sectionIndex\":1,\"sectionFactor\":12,\"zoneIndex\":1,\"layoutIndex\":1},\"addedFromPersistedData\":true,\"innerHTML\":\"<p>This is a description<br></p><p><a href=\\\"https://www.microsoft.com\\\" data-cke-saved-href=\\\"https://www.microsoft.com\\\" target=\\\"_self\\\" data-interception=\\\"on\\\" title=\\\"https://www.microsoft.com\\\">Microsoft Hyperlink</a><br></p>\",\"emphasis\":{},\"zoneGroupMetadata\":{\"type\":0}}
If I wanted to format a table or something the post function fails. I am assuming I need some sort of breaks before I use special characters to set the table styles with this method? I noticed it would also fail if I had new line breaks so I made sure the string I create for my table is formatted into a single line.
Adding the Style info causing the post to fail below.
<table style="width:100%"><tr><th>Form Number</th><th>Description</th><th>Last Used Date</th></tr><tbody>
Also tried creating a variable to store my style settings but doesn't seem to apply when the page is created.
<head><style>table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;}table {border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;}th, td {text-align: left; padding: 8px;}tr:nth-child(odd){background-color: #f2f2f2}th {background-color: #005b9a; color: white;}</style></head>
Hi @Expiscornovus ,
If have a file saved in Site Pages already with a promoted state 0. How can I publish it to a news page that will be displayed on the news web part?
can I simply uses the publish http request to change the promoted state from 1 to 2?
Your expertise will be greatly appreciated - Thanks.
I resolved my issue by using the following URIComponentToString
Awesome solution, @Expiscornovus, this worked great for me! You are clearly a genius. 😉 Thank you so much!
I'm wondering if you can help me take this solution a little further. I would like to write a few custom metadata values from the list to the library when the page is created. Any advice on how I can do that? I've tried a few different approaches but nothing has worked so far.
thanks, @Expiscornovus for the great building of the flow
I just have a problem with the step for saving as a draft it always shows me an error bad gateway. When removing the description content it ends successfully.
I have a similar flow built to create a site page using columns from a list. The flow works fine until I try to insert a rich text column from the list I suspect that it is failing when the html gets inserted into the POST and needs some sort of string replacement. I have used the Compose action with a replace() function to replace " with \" and can see that this action is working, but the POST still fails.
Compose:
replace(triggerOutputs()?['body/Detailed_x0020_description'],'"','\"'
Resulting POST:
@atolson I have noticed something for this kind of error. During the posting of the text into the site page, the text is too long and I think it is exceeding the limits of the text which is 256. I have tried to add small text and the workflow run successfully.
@Fatimah_33 Thanks for the suggestion, but my example has less than 256 characters (even with html tags).
Hi All I'm having trouble adding an Image to my news post, hoping someone might have a suggestion? I've got the flow working to create a news post when a new list item is added and publish to SP but I can't get it to add an image to the banner or the thumbnail.
{
"LayoutWebpartsContent":"[{\"id\":\"cbe7b0a9-3504-44dd-a3a3-0e5cacd07788\",\"instanceId\":\"cbe7b0a9-3504-44dd-a3a3-0e5cacd07788\",\"title\":\"\\n Title area\\n \",\"description\":\"\\n Title area description\\n \",\"audiences\":[],\"serverProcessedContent\":{\"htmlStrings\":{},\"searchablePlainTexts\":{},\"imageSources\":{\"imageSource\":\"https://companyname.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/Travel2/EZpSSl48dqtKha6lmzjRc2MBN3ZlRXUZA1Noo7K7i6k74w?e=2a..."},\"links\":{},\"customMetadata\":{\"imageSource\":{}}},\"dataVersion\":\"1.4\",\"properties\":{\"imageSourceType\":2,\"title\":\"Test\",\"textAlignment\":\"Left\",\"showPublishDate\":false,\"authors\":[{\"id\":\"\",\"upn\":\"\",\"email\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"role\":\"\"}],\"showTopicHeader\":false,\"authorByline\":[\"\"],\"layoutType\":\"CutInShape\",\"titlePlaceholder\":\"Name your news post\",\"topicHeader\":\"\"},\"reservedHeight\":356}]","CanvasContent1":"[{\"controlType\":4,\"id\":\"1212fc8d-dd6b-408a-8d5d-9f1cc787efbb\",\"position\":{\"controlIndex\":2,\"sectionIndex\":1,\"sectionFactor\":12,\"zoneIndex\":1,\"layoutIndex\":1},\"addedFromPersistedData\":true,\"innerHTML\":\"<p>The warning level has been issued as @{triggerOutputs()?['body/Warning_x0020_Level/Value']} <br></p><p><a href=\\\"https://companyname.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/Travel2/EbHJU0iSw8VIhxdPEKxHXz0BUWfckidbBJKlbhQiJcTKBQ?e=04...\\" data-cke-saved-href=\\\"https://companyname.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/Travel2/EbHJU0iSw8VIhxdPEKxHXz0BUWfckidbBJKlbhQiJcTKBQ?e=04...\\" target=\\\"_self\\\" data-interception=\\\"on\\\" title=\\\"https://companyname.sharepoint.com/sites/Travel2/_layouts/15/listform.aspx?PageType=4&ListId=08c359e...\\">Click here to read the full Warning details for item @{triggerOutputs()?['body/ID']}</a><br></p>\",\"emphasis\":{}},{\"controlType\":0,\"pageSettingsSlice\":{\"isDefaultDescription\":true,\"isDefaultThumbnail\":true}}]","AuthorByline": [],"TopicHeader": "","BannerImageUrl": "https://companyname.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/Travel2/EbHJU0iSw8VIhxdPEKxHXz0BUWfckidbBJKlbhQiJcTKBQ?e=5v...","Title":"@{triggerOutputs()?['body/Title']}"
What I end up with is
(thumbnail)
When I click on the news post it opens to this
What am I missing???
Just to be clear the body of the news is orriginally comming from an email directly to myself from an external party, upon receipt a new list item is added to SP.
Any suggestions would be extreemly appreciated.
Hi there. Your steps worked for me! I wish you had a guide or link to tell us how you wrote all that code down. On top of that, I would like to assign a metadata category to the News Post once it is created by the flow. Where would I add this into the flow? Do you have a online book that will allow me to learn how to edit the json so I can learn how to use these HTTP flow actions?
Thanks,
Cory