sharepoint 2013 hide feature not working in navigation

Question

The hide feature in Site Settings under navigation is not working.  I select the site, click hide then press save.  Immediately after clicking save, SP reverts all my hidden sites back to its original state->Show.  I have full rights to this site, and the issue is happening in SharePoint 2013 Enterprise.  Current and Global Navigation are set to "Structural Navigation: Display the navigation items below the current site".  Show subsites and Show pages are checked.  I don't know what could be causing the reversion. Everything including sorting and adding links seems to be working except the Show and Hide feature.

Help :-(

Answer 1

Hi,

It will only for publishing pages. you need to activate publishing features at site collection and site level to work

You could active the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure site collection feature and SharePoint Server Publishing site feature and create publish pages. Then you could open the publish page and click site action. You will see the hide show ribbon and hide ribbon commands in site action menu

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/4170b5dc-6126-4455-b0b4-070ea5c6132c/sp-2013-show-hide-ribbon-site-activites-menu-option-not-working?forum=sharepointgeneral

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Answer 2

Hello

After the Publish feature is activated, please select the specified site in "Current Site" to click "Hide" in the tools like this:

Answer 3

Hi cjsharon,

As Lakshmanan suggested, you need to activate publishing features at site collection and site level to work.

1. SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure site collection feature.
2. SharePoint Server Publishing site feature.

If the issue still exists, try to hide the sub site with the following PowerShell:

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell –erroraction SilentlyContinue

$web = Get-SPWeb http://SubSiteUrl...
$publishingWeb = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($web)
$publishingWeb.IncludeInGlobalNavigation = $false
$publishingWeb.Update();
$web.Dispose()

Best Regards，

Lisa Chen

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Answer 4

Hi cjsharon,

Is there anything update?

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Have a nice day!

Best Regards，

Lisa Chen

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