Adjusting Quicklinks Programmatically in SharePoint

Joel Plaut

May 06, 2013

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Use PowerShell to set Quicklinks Programmatically in SharePoint

Wouldn’t it be great to hide all lists of a certain type in a farm? Perhaps Tasks, Calendars or Discussions, or all of the above. Progrmmatically, they can be hidden or exposed on navigation using set_OnQuickLaunch(). Here’s how a given library is hidden from quick launch:

$LIB.set_OnQuickLaunch($false)

Let’s now do it across a full web application; all the site collections, sites, and for a set of libraries.

Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Start-SPAssignment –Global 
 
$mylogfile="C:logfolderongoinglogfile.txt"
 
$envrun="Prod"          # selects environment to run in
   
if ($envrun -eq "Dev")
{
$siteUrl = "http://devdocs.SharePoint.com"
$LibsToFlip = "Tasks,Site Pages,Calendar,Documents"
 
$LibsToFlipArray = $LibsToFlip.Split(“,”)
}
elseif ($envrun -eq "Prod")
{
$siteUrl = "http://docsny.SharePoint.com"
 
$LibsToFlip = "Tasks,Site Pages,Calendar,Documents,Team Discussion"
$LibsToFlipArray = $LibsToFlip.Split(“,”)
}
else
{
Write-Host "ENVIRONMENT SETTING NOT VALID: script terminating..."
$siteUrl =  $null;
return;
}
 
Write-Host "Quick Launch Flip script starting $(get-date)"
 
 
 
if ($siteurl)
{
$rootSite = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($siteUrl)
$spWebApp = $rootSite.WebApplication 
foreach($site in $spWebApp.Sites)
{
  write-host $site.Url
 
#  if ($site.Url -like "$siteurl/personal/*")  
  if ($site.Url -like "$siteurl*")  
{
$rootSite = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($siteUrl);
$rootWeb = $rootSite.RootWeb;
 
 
 $webs= $site.AllWebs;
 $WebsCount = $webs.count;
  
 for ($wi=0; $wi -lt $WebsCount; $wi++)
   {
   $web = $webs[$wi]
 
   $changed = $false;
    
   $lists = $web.Lists;
   $listcount = $lists.count;
    for ($li=0; $li -lt $listcount; $li++)
   { 
   $JPLib = $lists[$li]
 
    if ($libsToFlipArray -contains $JPLib.Title )
    {
    WRITE-HOST -ForegroundColor darkgreen "$($JPLib.Title) in $($web.url)"
    $JPLIB.set_OnQuickLaunch($false)
    $JPLib.Update()
    $changed = $true;
    }
 
    }
    if ($changed)
    {
        #$Web.update()
    }
  
}
}
}
}
 
Stop-SPAssignment –Global
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