Renaming and organizing Quick Launch headings

Question

I'm trying to do some renaming and rearranging in my Quick Launch. I want to re-name the List heading to read "Reports".  I did that, but when I click on the "Reports" link the list in the content area now displayed stilll reads "Lists".  How do I edit it to read "Reports"?


Also, I had a calendar under my Lists (now Reports).  I created a new heading and labeled it Calendars and re-ordered the items in the QL so that my calendars are how displayed under the Calendars heading in the QL.  However, when I click on the "Reports" heading, the content page still shows my calendars listed there.  How do I remove them from here?

Also, I didn't know what to use as the URL for my new Calendars heading.  It seems like I need to assign it a custom templateID.  Is that correct, and how is that done?

Answer 1

Hello,

When you click on that default Lists (which you renamed to Reports) link it is going to take you to the "/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx?BaseType=0" page, no matter what you change the name to.  Changing the name of the link won't update the link itselft.  You will need to setup a page that has the content you want to display, and then link to that page.  It sounds like you want to have a link for Reports and a link for Calendars on the QL, and have those links take you to pages where links to your reports and calendars is diplayed.  You can do this, what you need to do is create a Page for Reports and a page for Calendars.  Create two links lists:  One that has links to your calendar lists and one that has links to your reports lists.  Add the List View Web Part for your Calendars links list to the Calendar page, and the LVWP for your Reports links list to the Reports page.  Take the urls from the Calendar page and Reports page and have the Calendars and Reports links in the QL reference these page urls.

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Chris Caravajal MCTS SharePoint Help

Answer 2

Thanks.  I think I understand what you are describing and why.  I will be trying it out later today.

Answer 3

Is this something I can only do in SP Designer? 
Is there no way to edit lists displayed on viewlsts.aspx?

Answer 4

Chris has the proper solution for you. Even if you can edit that page in Sharepoint Designer, you probably shouldn't. That page is there to show you all the items that you have in your site (i.e. Document Libraries, Lists, Sub sites)

As Chris suggested, create 2 different lists with links to your reports/calendars accordingly. Or you can put your links in two different web part pages. Then, in your QL, point your reports/calendar links appropriately.

Answer 5

HI Chris,
I'm trying to give this a go.  This is only my second week of Sharepoint so I'm new to the concepts.  I'm creating a new web part page, on which I hope to make a list of all my reports (this is what I want to link to from the Reports heading in my QL menu).  At the bottom of the form to create the new web part page, it asks me what document Library I want to save this WPP in.  I don't understand that. Why would I want to save this page in a document library?

Oak - I think I did what you described, but the page now linked to from my Reports heading in the QL menu (reports.aspx) does not contain the QL menu on it.  That won't work for me.

Answer 6

So, what if I don't want the headings in the QL menu to link anywhere?  I only have a few sub links under each heading and I don't need the heading to link to a page that just repeats a list of all the sub headings.  I tried removing the link associated with each heading, but it is a required field.  I can put in #, but that just links back to the home page.

Answer 7

You will not be able to achieve this from the browser UI.  If you are familiar with SharePoint Designer you take a look at the code the Quick Launch is referencing.  This will not be a trivial thing.

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Chris Caravajal MCTS SharePoint Help

Answer 8

HI Chris,
I'm trying to give this a go.  This is only my second week of Sharepoint so I'm new to the concepts.  I'm creating a new web part page, on which I hope to make a list of all my reports (this is what I want to link to from the Reports heading in my QL menu).  At the bottom of the form to create the new web part page, it asks me what document Library I want to save this WPP in.  I don't understand that. Why would I want to save this page in a document library?

Oak - I think I did what you described, but the page now linked to from my Reports heading in the QL menu (reports.aspx) does not contain the QL menu on it.  That won't work for me.

You need to save the web part pages somewhere in the site. By default, sharepoint will ask you in which document library you want to save the page in. As for the Quick Launch menu not being on the web part page, for some reason that's how it was designed. There is way to get the quick launch to appear on your web part pages, but it involves using Sharepoint Designer and making changes to the master file for the site. Sorry, I forgot about this when suggested you to use web part page. If you need help with this, let me know.

I think Chris' list suggestion would be the easiest solution in this case. Just create a custom list or a link list. One column for name of the report and another column named "link", single line text field. When you enter a webpage url in that link field, I believe sharepoint automatically renders it as a hyperlink. Now, in your QL, point your reports link to this custom list. This way, your link from QL will show only the reports link you have in that list and you'll have the QL on the side at the same time.

Answer 9

I finished your suggestions and it works as desired, though of course, the new page doesn't look like a viewlsts.aspx page.  Does the viewlsts.aspx page display its contents with a web part that contains the lists?  It has that heading above the list items which is kind of nice. My page doesn't have that.

Answer 10

You can add a CEWP and make your own title.