Advent Calendar Door 9: Hiding a ribbon in SharePoint page, view or form

Hiding a ribbon in SharePoint page, view or form

A quick one – but a classical one – for the 9^th cookie in this year’s skybow Advent Calendar: how do I hide a ribbon in SharePoint?

Very simple: in skybow Solution Studio, regardless if in page, view or form, select the “layout” icon in the toolbox on the right side, and just switch off the “Ribbon menu” togle. Voila, it’s gone.

Ribbon Menue skybow Solution Studio.png

Don’t forget to replace the ribbon functionality either with Action Links or with buttons. Isn’t this cool? Sure, because skybow.

Written by Adis Jugo

is Director of Product Technology at skybow, and a software architect with over 20 years of experience. Adis is double Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Office Development and for Office Servers and Services. He first met SharePoint (and Microsoft CMS server) back in 2002, and since 2006 his focus was completely shifted towards architecture and development of productivity solutions, now based on the Azure, Office 365 and SharePoint technologies. Adis is an internationally recognized speaker with over 15 years of speaker experience, speaking at various Microsoft, Community and SharePoint/Office 365/Azure conferences worldwide.