How to hide recent in the navigation

Question

In SP2013 you have the recent entry in the navigation. Is there an easy way to automatically hide/remove this entry?

Answer 1

Did some additional research and found the answer myself.

var title = SPUtility.GetLocalizedString("$Resources:core,category_Recent", null, web.Language);
SPNavigationNodeCollection nodes = web.Navigation.QuickLaunch;
foreach (SPNavigationNode node in nodes)
{
  if (node.Title.Equals(title))
  {
    node.Delete();
    break;
  }
}

Answer 2

You can manually delete the header from:

Site Settings-> Look and Feel -> Navigation

Answer 3

I have an out of the box solution.

1. *Settings -> Site contents
2. *Site permissions
3. *Create Group
4. Make a new group with no permissions.
5. Delete all users from the group.
6. *Settings -> Site contents
7. *Navigation
8. Select the "Recent" heading
9. *Edit
10. Set Audience = the group from step 4
11. *OK
12. *OK

Now only members of a group, with no members, are able to see the "Recent" heading.

Answer 4

With Sharepoint Online (Office 365) you can delete the Recent from the menu by doing the following:

1. Select "Edit Links" at the bottom left of menu
2. Click "X" next to Recent" to delete it and save

NOTE: You'll need to recreate the menu links under "Recent" if you follow these steps. Under each app you'll need to toggle the on/off radio button for "Display this list on the Quick Launch?" in the General Settings.

Answer 5

In SP13, just go to site settings > Look and Feel > Quick launch and click the recent link. You'll have to put in a url before it will allow you to delete.

Answer 6

The solution I used was to create a SharePoint group (I called mine "RemoveRecent") and have no users assigned to that group.

I then used this PowerShell script to add the "RemoveRecent" group into the "Audience Targeting" section of the "Recent" Quick Launch Navigation Link.

This effectively hides the menu item from everyone.

$Site = Get-SPSite "https://SITECOLLECTION/"

foreach ($Web in $Site.AllWebs)
    {
    $PublishingWeb = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($web)
    $QuickLaunchNav = $PublishingWeb.Navigation.CurrentNavigationNodes
    $QuickLaunchHeading = $QuickLaunchNav | where {$_.Title -eq "Recent"} 

    if ($QuickLaunchHeading)
        {
        Write-Host $Web.Title "- " -ForegroundColor Green -BackgroundColor Black -NoNewline
        $QuickLaunchHeading.Properties["Audience"] = "RemoveRecent"
        $QuickLaunchHeading.Update() 
        }
    }

Answer 7

Using jQuery: SharePoint 2013 - Remove Recent

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(document).ready(function() {
  jQuery(".ms-core-listMenu-item:contains('Recent')").parent().hide();
  });
</script>

Answer 8

1. Site Settings -> Quick Launch Select the Edit icon near Recent
2. Copy any valid url into the empty URL box (Recent item does not show a URL)
3. Click Delete (with an empty URL box, it would have given an error message)
4. Confirm deletion

It works in SharePoint 2013, not sure about the earlier versions

Answer 9

I decided as follows: Added the css code on the page that did not want to display the "Recent" menu:

div#zz12_V4QuickLaunchMenu ul#zz13_RootAspMenu li.static span.static span.additional-background{
display:none;
}