How to: Remove the Explorer View from a Document Library Template
Posted
Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:40 PM
by
CoreyRoth
If you are building a custom document library solution, there may be a time where you don't want users to use the Explorer View of the document library. I am talking about the view itself and not the Open with Windows Explorer action in this case. The correct way to do is of course is to create your own custom document library template (I'll be covering that in a future post) and then modify the schema.xml file. If you want to go crazy and unsupported, you can also modify the schema.xml of the built-in DocumentLibrary feature and accomplish the same result for the out-out-the-box document library. Removing it is just a matter of removing the appropriate View element in the schema.xml file. In this case, you are looking for an element similar to the one below.
<View BaseViewID="3" Type="HTML" WebPartZoneID="Main" DisplayName="$Resources:core,Explorer_View;" Url="Forms/WebFldr.aspx" SetupPath="pages\webfldr.aspx" RequiresClientIntegration="TRUE" ReadOnly="TRUE">
It will have a BaseViewId of 3 and a Display Name indicating that it is the explorer view. Just delete this entire View element and reactivate the feature and this view will not be present on any new document libraries you create. Again, I recommend creating your own document library template instead of modifying the built-in one. I'll cover this soon, since I haven't found too many good sets of instructions out there on how to do it.