SharePoint Republish Button Disappearing

Anonymous
2020-01-21T20:04:15+00:00

Recently, when I click the Edit button to go into Editing mode in SharePoint Online, the Republish button doesn't display where it used to. In order to get it to show back up I have to refresh the page.

  1. Click Edit button.

  1. Republish button missing.

  1. Refresh the page. This popup keeps reappearing no matter how many times I close it out.

  1. After closing the pop-up, the Republish button has returned.

  1. Clicking the Republish button puts me back at Step 1. I have to go through this process every time I want to Republish any page.

As you can see, this quickly becomes annoying. Please help!

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-01-31T14:52:37+00:00

    Another variant on this bug - when I click "discard changes" and accept the return to last version, the page still shows "update news". If I click discard changes again, I see what's in the screenshot below. Then if I leave and return to the page it's published despite all the error messages. The whole modern ui has a very amateurish, unfinished feel to it with all these bugs. Is it ever going to work as promised so we can use it?

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-03T19:28:35+00:00

    Have the exact same issue as Adam.  Noticed it beginning 3 to 4 weeks ago.  Today we had a case where when an author hit refresh because the republish button was missing, sp deleted the content from most of the text web parts on the page and saved a version.  Had to go and restore a previous version and lost quite a bit of progress. 

    I would think fixing this issue would be high priority if you want people to continue to use SPO modern pages.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-08T19:45:09+00:00

    Confirming that as of 2/8/2020, this is still an issue.  I've seen it on most pages I edit using Chrome/Edge Cromium/Firefox/Internet Explorer.  Seems to NOT occur on the first edit, but if you perform a subsequent edit without reloading the page or navigating to another page first, then the problem reproduces.   Not sure how I stumbled into the "refresh as workaround" solution, but I'll confirm that it seems to be the only way to get past this.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-02-11T04:19:46+00:00

    Can confirm that this is happening to us as well. Almost all reported this issue and other that Chrome, this is happening in Edge and Edge DEV.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-11T16:30:45+00:00

    We are having the same problem, and it just recently started. We are using Chrome, this is a Communications site, and we are a government agency.

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