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Delete the "Shared with us" link on navigation menu for modern sites
Hi everyone!
I've tried to remove the lin on the navigation bar called "Shared with us". It appears whenever it wants and disappear...
I've read many posts but it looks that no one have tried or want to remove this link. Why? Help!
- How is this still a thing five years later? Why can't we just uncheck links we don't want?
- There is another thread that has a solution!!
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint/quot-shared-with-us-quot-link-in-modern-sharepoint-menu-behavior/m-p/41692/page/3
Post by Simon_TR
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Aug 11 2024 11:01 PM
The solution that worked for me to remove "Shared with Us":
Site Settings > Site collection features > Enable: SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
Site Settings > Manage Site Features > Enable: SharePoint Server Publishing
Site Settings > Navigation Elements > Disable: Enable Quick Launch
After some page refreshing the "Shared with Us" menu item has disappeared.
I hope this helps others.PalleJensen
This works to some extent. After few navigation to pages the "Shared with us " comes back. Please let me now a permanent solution if you can
- I think it's sad that in four years, all we got until now is:
- Oh don't use a teams site
- Switch to top level navigation
Deleted: That's not a solution! I have thousands of company user feedbacks asking our IT why they can't remove this useless link from their sites... It's confusing everyone.- I could probably build you a solution that hides that link. But you would need to add it as a web part on each page.
ArefHalmstrand thank you for the offer, but I'm hoping for a permanent solution from Microsoft, that our end users can also intuitively apply.
But if you can post a css / javascript code here that loads with the page and hides it away, it might help other poor souls.
Still going in April 2024. Looks like the "Shared with Us" is directly linked to the document library and shows up as a view. (view=3)
But the link just shows up, for me at least, as the third item on the navigation, regardless of what else I add. I can't move it, hide it, and it throws off the list. Click the wrong item? Need to let it fully load because if you accidentally opened a library... you will have to click down one link - unless you are clicking something higher. Trying to click the third item? Good luck, now it's the fourth!
Why can't we just have something on the views menu or ribbon menu to show just "Shared with us" items? Like others, this is a team site that will have NOTHING EVER shared to it. The only people that would ever need anything on this team site are already part of the team.
LET US CUSTOMIZE OUR OWN SITES!
On a contemporary website, you typically need to make adjustments to the site's settings in order to remove the "Shared with us" link from the menu. Depending on the website system you're using, there may be variations in the process, but as an administrator, you often need special access. To remove the "Shared with us" link , you might need to access the menu settings or modify the menu. Don't forget to save your modifications or the link will stop appearing in the menu. Check the website's instructions for guidance if you need it and are unsure of how to proceed.
gbartumeu I know this thread is pretty old from it's original post, but I've seen some activity not to long ago.
I was able to get the "Shared with us" to stop showing up by building the left navigation by hand. I don't like clicking Yes for displaying this library on the Quick Launch when creating new content. Just a pet peeve of mine. So, I haven't really seen it in sites that I'm creating. However, it just came up on a client site where I didn't build everything. Sure enough, the creators had the setting set to Yes. By changing the setting to No and rebuilding the link in the left navigation, the "Shared with us" link stops appearing.
murbanek : Can you show an example ? (which settings to activate / deactivate, example code to implement and so on...)
All other suggested solutions does not work (for me), but I'm not sure how to test your solution, as I don't fully understand. Are you adding a html pane and then manually making the links you want?
- I recently deleted the Web application "Mysite Host" and also the User Profile service connected to it. Then re created the whole stuff. After connecting to the personal mysite site collection, I found out that in "shared with me" nothing has been deleted. all of the shared documents from long before are still shown there, none of them exist any more and don't open...
How can I get ride of none existent "Shared with me" content?
any help is much appreciated.
- There are two workarounds I've stumbled upon:
1) The "Shared with us" link appears in the modern experience whenever you are directly viewing a list or library. If you are viewing a page, it does not appear. You can remove the "Shared with us" entirely by embedding lists or libraries in a page and only having pages accessible in the navigation bar.
2) "Shared with us" can also be removed by changing the navigation from vertical (on the left) to horizontal (at the top). To do this, from anywhere, click on the gear/cog icon > "Change the look" > "Navigation" > select "Horizontal" orientation. - Has this been solved? If not, please check my recent reply before this one.
Yours sincerely,
Aref Halmstrand - Well it's April 2022 and still there. No solution still?
FlissZ really pointless to bother telling Microsoft what our clients and users tell us. Since the SharePoint team knows so much better what they need than they do.
- This is the new Feedback link since UserVoice is discontinued
davidpoon "This" ?
