hide/disable the Recent Activity in the details pane
Implement a configurable switch to hide/disable the Recent Activity in the details pane. Should be configurable at the user, library or tenant level.
Users find it annoying when the details pane keeps refreshing as other users update a list item or document; it makes the details pane constantly refresh and appears to "flicker" causing a poor user experience.
Rob Barker
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Anonymous
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Same here, we are migrating to SharePoint and I know that this will be an unwelcome list. Any way to hide this panel without having to disable the library from the search as suggested in some links?
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Anonymous
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Why is this still a function? It is totally inappropriate for my activity including file names to be broadcast to all users of our SharePoint.
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Anonymous
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This is absolutely a must function. In addition to security concerns, there is also another important function where you can find a direct link to the element (folder/file) which can be found at the very bottom of side pane and copied easily - but if you have a lot of activities in 'Recent Activity' part it is almost impossible or very time consuming to scroll to the bottom of this list.
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Brittney Trimmer
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Please add this functionality as it would be very useful.
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Rahul K
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Needs to have an option to permanently disable or to improve the user experience can be rights managed.
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Jonathan Elwell
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I just ran into this today, a client had users seeing activity in folders they don't have access to - even though they couldn't access the document itself, being able to see the document name is a major data access issue
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Anonymous
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not having the ability to hide recent activity surely is a breach of GDPR. I can see what documents the MD is working on, and thats never a good thing
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Anonymous
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this has to be an option - how its not seen as a breach of privacy i do not know...
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anonymus
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Please give me the possibility to turn off the activity pane and remove alle the data that is mentioned in it.
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Jon Zaid
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The details pane should be able to be hidden!!
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Anonymous
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I wrote an app using sharepoint backend. Status of the record should always be updated by the system (flows) and every change is timestamped with datetime and who did it. Users are circumventing this by opening the details pane and changing the values. I cant enforce compliance
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rosie richmond
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If you mean the Activity web part on the modern page, you can easily remove it from the page. Click “Edit” to edit the page > click the remove button to remove the webpart > publish the page to save the changes.
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David
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This seems like a simple fix. Does Microsoft not know how to turn this off? I thought Microsoft listened to their customers.
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Anonymous
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Please implement an option to disable this, we have patient data and other sensitive internal information, which filenames shouldn't be displayed to all people in the organization that are able to access Sharepoint.
The workaround to completely remove a document library from search (as pointed out here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_sharepoint/how-to-hide-sharepoint-online-activity-in-home/1ab2a702-36bd-4d4c-a5fd-0486dd8a0aba) is not a proper solution.
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Amey Mulay
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I concur what Neil stated !
This is a security concern & we should be able to toggle it as & when required.
As it defeats the purpose of providing secured access.Regards,
AMEY -
Martin C
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Anonymous
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This is quite pathetic to still not have a solution, please fix it.
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Anonymous
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The activity module can still be seen within the document library's details pane. The ability to turn this feature off across the site should be possible. I understand why its there but also understand the need to have the option to disable.
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Anonymous
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This link will show you how to delete the activity module.
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Wayne
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"Recent Activity" is a GDPR concern for Business and Education environments. Microsoft must implement an option to turn this off.
