elastic/kibana

Newsfeed menu item shows even if there is no news

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#227,288 opened on Jul 9, 2025

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Description

Kibana version: Seen in 9.1 (and earlier) Elastic Cloud

Describe the bug: Usability. Low priority.

If there is no news, we should not expect a user to contact their administrator in order to disable the News menu icon.

Are there ways to auto-disable this? Or maybe only show the menu icon if news items exist.

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Locate the component that renders the newsfeed menu item and add a conditional check to hide it when there are no news items.
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typescript
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frontend
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