How to hide the Quick Launch...

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

Mike Walsh — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:36:52 GMT

Clever, but I have to ask what is wrong with the easier option of

Site Settings / Tree View and removing the "x" from Quick Launch ?

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

James Kemp — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:06:12 GMT

Hi Mike,

Good suggestion - this of course is a simpler way of hiding the Quick Launch. The only disadvantage of this is that links to View All Site Content and the Recycle Bin are still shown, not fully maximising the width of the page. Granted, this wasn't specified as a requirement in the above post!

Thanks again,

James

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

Lisa-Marie — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:27:30 GMT

I did this and the quick launch dissapeared but the left margin did not move to the very left and instead there is just a empty space where the quick launch was.

Can I change this?

Do you also know how to remove the top meny bar... I guess it is similar to this.

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

James Kemp — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:55:31 GMT

Hi Lisa-Marie,

When hiding the Quick Launch on a publishing site the margin will be greatly reduced. To make sure this happens on all sites it maybe worth making your own master page. You can then choose to make certain content placeholders not visible, such as menus.

NOTE: if you delete some content placeholders you will probably run into errors, so hiding them is probably a safer option.

More info on making a custom master page can be found at sites such as http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101009061033.aspx?pid=CH100667701033

Thanks,

James

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

Barry — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:10:20 GMT

I created my own custom master page and it seemed to do the trick!

Cheers Barry

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

Dean — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:32:49 GMT

How do you put the page into edit mode?

I'm confused.

Thanks in advance.

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

James Kemp — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:35:07 GMT

Hi Dean,

Good feedback. I have modified the post to try and explain this (new first step).

Thanks,

James

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

Dean — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:31:23 GMT

Thanks James. Please bear in mind in the future that not everyone is an *advanced* user. I haven't done any training in Sharepoint. I am just trying to teach myself with the help of your blog and various other sources.

Many thanks,

Dean

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

kumar — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:33:08 GMT

Hi,this article is very help to me in correct time......

I have one doubt in my site collection which has 10 subsites. I follow ur steps quick launchbar is disabled good. However, to disable it on other subsites I have to follow procedure on all other sites.......

Is there any easy way to do this on multiple sites. (Note: When i was creating subsite i selected unique permissions)........

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

James Kemp — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:48:38 GMT

Hi Kumar,

To hide the quick launch on multiple sites you would probably need to do one of the following:

a) Go to Site Actions > Site Settings > Tree View, and then deselect "Enable Quick Launch". You may have to do this on each subsite unfortunately.

b) Make your own master page (by copying default.master and hiding the quick launch). You can then configure the top-level site of the site collection to use your own master page. It will be easy to configure all subsites to use your custom master page (thus hiding the quick launch on all subsites). For more guidance on doing this, please see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101009061033.aspx?pid=CH100667701033

Thanks,

James

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

Emily — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:31:34 GMT

Is there anyway to hide just the Sites part of the Quick Launch?

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

James Kemp — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:50:10 GMT

Hi Emily,

Yes. To hide a particular link or header within the Quick Launch:

1. Go to Site Actions > Site Settings

2. Under Look and Feel, click Quick Launch

3. Delete the link/heading you want to hide (e.g. "Sites")

Thanks,

James

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

Ram — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:53:56 GMT

Excellent article that saved me lot of time

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

Rajdeep — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:51:51 GMT

Sick one bruv. This is wicked!

Hide based on users

Abhi — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:03:23 GMT

I want to hide small section (2,3 link) of Quick Launch section. How can I do that ?

Abhi

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

James Kemp — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:51:47 GMT

Hi Abhi,

If you would like to modify the links that appear on the Quick Launch you can do this through the SharePoint UI. No code is needed.

1. From the Site Actions menu, click Site Settings

2. Under Look and Feel, click Quick Launch (or Current Navigation)

3. Delete the link/heading you want to hide (e.g. "Lists" or "Calendar")

Your changes should be automatically reflected.

James

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

Teresa — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:55:15 GMT

Thanks for the great tip!

Is it possible to hide the Quick Launch for anonymous users but not authenticated users?

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

Teresa — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:15:35 GMT

Thanks for the great tip!

Is there a way to hide the Quick Launch only for anonymous users and for the Quick Launch to appear once the user signs in?

Thanks!

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

Mike — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:34:05 GMT

I am trying to disable the quick launch bar on all pages on my site on the masterpage level (pages, lists, and librarys).

I created a .css and linked to it in the header section and it works great, for me....

My visistors with the default read permission level see the quick launch bar.

How can I correct this?

I tried adding the "can apply stlye sheets" in the read permission level, but it didn't work any ideas?

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

James Kemp — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:50:17 GMT

Hi Teresa,

The navigation items on the Quick Launch should be security trimmed, i.e. if a user doesn't have the permissions to view a particular document library, they won't see the link to this document library on the Quick Launch. From this perspective, I would advocate using out-of-the-box functionality as it should meet your requirements......

As I understand it, if a user has Read permissions for a doc library, they will see the link on the Quick Launch. Therefore, what you would need to do is to NOT give anonymous users Read permissions on your lists and libraries. That way, they wont see anything :).

Thanks and all the best,

James

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

James Kemp — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:04:18 GMT

Hi Mike,

Hmm....I haven't ran into this problem before. However, I'm assuming that at the top-level in your site collection, have you configured the appropriate options to use your custom master page and custom .css file? I would also make sure you click the "reset all subsites to inherit this setting" checkbox when doing so. If this fails to work, I would consider modifying your master page to reference the css file directly and checking this works in a program like SharePoint Designer.

If this fails, let me know. The other alternative of course, is to:

Go to Site Actions > Site Settings > Tree View, and then deselect "Enable Quick Launch". (you may have to do this on each subsite unfortunately).

Thanks,

James

re: How to hide the Quick Launch...

Stowe — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:06:13 GMT

Way cool.....much thanks

Stowe