Hide some lists from treeview?

Question

I want to use the tree view on the left side, but I don't want it so show some of the document libraries such as Site Assets and Style Library - they need to be on the site, but users don't need to see them.

Is there any way to control what shows up in the tree view?

This is similar to Hide items in Sharepoint Treeview but not a duplicate.

Answer 1

Go into Sharepoint Designer and select your list(s). Tick the check box for Hide From Browser. This will remove it from all aspects of the UI, including the tree view.

Answer 2

You can create your own custom data provider for the treeview control and then use something like the additionalpagehead delegate control to instantiate it and set it as the datasource for the treeview.

Here is an example of creating a custom site map provider: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/96461/Building-a-Custom-Site-Map-Provider

Here is an example of using the additionalpagehead control: http://www.sharepointjohn.com/sharepoint-2010-programmatically-add-javascript-meta-tags-and-css-styles-to-the-header-of-every-page/

And all you'd need to do with the TreeView control itself is:

WebTreeView.DataSourceID = null;
WebTreeView.DataSource = yourcustomsource;
WebTreeView.DataBind();