site navigation links only visible to those with permissions

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_{Wednesday, December 5, 2012 5:35 PM}

It was my understanding that links to sites would only be visible to those who had permissions to access the site. Is this not the case?

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_{Friday, December 7, 2012 2:24 AM ✅Answered}

Hi run4it,

QuickLaunch is not security trim, it will display all the subsites even if they don’t have access. When you go to view all site content, you will see all the lists, libraries, and sites that you have permission to access.

You are right, In order to make links within the Quick Launch only visible to those users or groups with the proper permissions, you can use audience. Activate publishing feature, go to navigation, click the site under sites, edit, then set audience.

Best Regards.

Kelly Chen
TechNet Community Support

_{Monday, December 10, 2012 2:41 AM ✅Answered}

Hi run4it,

The Publishing Infrastructure provides you so many benefits, at the site collection level, with a number of document libraries, lists, Web Parts, additional administrative links and SharePoint Groups etc.

For more information, see

http://mindsharpblogs.com/penny/archive/2007/09/28/2973.html

http://mysharepointwork.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-all-is-enabled-with-publishing.html

Best Regards.

Kelly Chen
TechNet Community Support

_{Thursday, December 6, 2012 7:10 AM}

Hi run4it,

Yes, you are right. Those links to sites, lists and so on are visible based on the user permissions.

Best Regards.

Kelly Chen
TechNet Community Support

_{Thursday, December 6, 2012 5:01 PM}

Then something is amiss in the new site I am building.  I have a site in which user X has access. In that site I created a Document Workspace (subsite).  User X does not have permissions to this workspace.  However, they still see the link to the workspace in the QuickLaunch menu. Once they click on the link they do get an access denied message, but it would be better if they didn't see the link at all.  The publishing infrastructure is not activated, so audience targeting is not an option (as I understand it).

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_{Friday, December 7, 2012 5:17 PM}

are there any possible negative consequences of activating publishing in what is essentially a collection of teamsites?

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_{Thursday, August 3, 2017 11:22 AM}

Turning on Publishing stops the ability to create Site Templates. This has been painful for us because we've had to re-create sites -> Create a new site. Create List Templates on the old site and add them to the new site via Site Contents Add an App. SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflows had to recreated on the lists on the new site.

We were using Office 365 SharePoint and SharePoint Designer 2013.

Reference sharepointmaven.com/activate-publishing-features-in-sharepoint/