How do I hide folders from the Site Hierarchy in SharePoint Services

Question

How do I configure the Site Hierarchy on the left hand side of a SharePoint Services 3.0 site to NOT show folders?

We have thousands of folders and it takes ages to load the page!

Thanks

Answer 1

One way would be to use the SPWeb.Navigation class to remove all the undesired items from the quick launch bar. For more information check these classes:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.navigation.spnavigation.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.navigation.spnavigation_members.aspx

Good luck.

Answer 2

I'm going to assume you mean the Quick Launch bar. If not then just leave me a comment so I can update the answer.

In a nutshell you want to configure navigation from the site settings page. You an quickly go in and tell it to NOT display any child sites. For detail instructions checkout this page.