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Vivek Jain
Aug 29, 2017Brass Contributor
Removing "Getting Started" parts from SharePoint Online WebPages
On SharePoint Pages we see an area titled 'Getting Started' (screen below). I am trying to find out best ways to remove this. It doesn't seem to be a webpart which we can be simply hidden. Please su...
Aug 30, 2017
How did you add the WebPart there? I see your page has been customized and this can be done in two ways: manually or programmatically. Can you try to open de WebPart maintenance page appending to the page url the following: ?contents=1
Vivek Jain
Aug 30, 2017Brass Contributor
This block "Getting Started" seems like is added automatically during the site-creation. This doesn't sound like a webpart, since it doesn't have the WebPart editing option at the top right corner of the WebPart area during page edits.
Apparently, this block is there for the sites which were "migrated from on-premise to SPO". The sites started freshly within SPO doesn't have this block.
The WebPart maintenance page has following :
- Aug 31, 2017
Does it go away if you deactivate the "Getting Started" site feature?
- Vivek JainAug 31, 2017Brass Contributor
Hi Drew,
It did not go away when I deacticated that in manage site features. I tried using diffferent browsers after deactivating just to ensure it's not coming from cache etc. Thanks for the pointer though.