SharePoint 2013 contains a new feature that creates a Recent shortcut in the quick launch. This shortcut appears after creating a new app. One of our customers doesn’t want to use this feature. There is only NO out-of-the-box feature to remove it. Very strange. I asked on SPYAM how to remove the shortcut. I received the following answer from Jussi Roine:
The Recent-section gets added automatically through a WebControl on the page. To automatically remove the who section (including child navigation nodes of Recent) you could enable a custom feature, that simply does a .Delete() against the corresponding navigation node in SPWeb.Navigation.QuickLaunch navigation collection.
Then just call your custom feature from your provisioning logic, and way Recent -section would always be removed upon provisioning a new site.
Alternatively you could use some CSS-styling but that wouldn’t really remove it, but just hide.
Hopefully this can set you in the right direction. Thanks Jussi!
Edit
Thanks to my visitors for leaving valuable replies! Another solution is:
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery(".ms-core-listMenu-item:contains('Recent')").parent().hide();
});
14 Comments
Anonymous
February 6, 2013 at 8:19 amWe have been wondering this too. Thanks Jussi & Jasper!
Anonymous
March 26, 2013 at 11:49 pmWow. So frustrating. Adding a feature that no one wants and can’t be disabled. Go MS!
Anonymous
May 24, 2013 at 4:33 pmWhat I did:
Added a jQuery reference to my master page and added the following script to the end of these closing tags. If you use $(document).ready, you see the updating of the page.
This script gets rid of it as it is created. SharePoint:SPTreeView SharePoint:SPRememberScroll Template_Controls
SharePoint:DelegateControl
SharePoint:SPNavigationManager
script type=”text/javascript”>
var parent = $(“span.additional-background:contains(‘Recent’)”).parent();
var parentul = parent.parents(“ul”);
var childli = $(parentul).find(“ul”);
parent.replaceWith(childli.html());
childli.remove();
parent.hide();
script>
Anonymous
May 29, 2013 at 7:12 pmhttp://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/thread/ea3cd462-e861-4850-bfb3-f259ec8772ed
Michel Verwijmeren
May 30, 2013 at 12:10 pmThanks for sharing Jasper and Jussi!
tommdaly
January 9, 2014 at 2:53 amThanks for sharing! I like the idea here and I’ve created a sandbox solution which remove the “Recent” node via JavaScript Client Object model asynchronously. This is good for both online and on-prem.
http://tommdaly.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/permanently-removing-the-recent-node-from-quick-launch-for-sharepoint-2013/
Jasper Oosterveld
January 9, 2014 at 11:30 amAwesome Tom! I immediately Tweeted it 🙂
Asif Rehmani
March 21, 2014 at 8:32 pmThanks for another very helpful post Jasper.
Have you seen any issues stemming from this when used practically?
-Asif
Pankaj Srivastava
June 5, 2014 at 8:37 amThanks for sharing Jasper ,
I would like to know why ‘Recent’ Links are coming by default is there any OOTB feature to enable and disable recent links ?
Jasper Oosterveld
June 5, 2014 at 8:58 amThere isn’t an ootb option to remove this feature.
Dennis Gaida
August 27, 2014 at 9:52 amAnd in vanilla JavaScript if you don’t need/want jQuery (doesn’t work in IE<9):
if (document.getElementsByClassName != "undefined") {
var qlItems = document.getElementById("DeltaPlaceHolderLeftNavBar").getElementsByClassName("ms-core-listMenu-item");
for (i = 0; i < qlItems.length; i++) {
if (qlItems[i].innerHTML.indexOf("Zuletzt verwendet") != -1 || qlItems[i].innerHTML.indexOf("Recent") != -1) {
qlItems[i].parentElement.style.display = 'none';
}
}
}
Matthew Carter
October 7, 2015 at 11:51 amThere’s a much simpler way, and no code required. Go to “Site Settings”, “Navigation”, then select the “Recent” folder and edit the audience targeting setting and add a SharePoint Group that you want to be able to see the Recent folder (create a Group first if you don’t have one). If there is no-one in the SharePoint group, then no-one will see it anymore.
Jasper Oosterveld
October 7, 2015 at 12:05 pmThat’s such a great idea! Thanks for sharing Matthew 🙂
Mark Marriott
July 17, 2017 at 12:09 amwhat a simple solution! Thanks!.