Thursday, 21 June 2012

Hide Title column from SharePoint List

After creating a SharePoint 2010 list, It automatically create set of predefined columns like title, created by, created, modified, modified by etc. Sometimes Title column is not in useful for us, So it is necessary to hide this column.

After creating SharePoint 2010 list go to the list settings from the Ribbon as shown in the figure below.

Then from the List Settings page From the General Settings section go to Advanced settings as shown in the figure below.
In the advanced settings page from the Content types select Allow management of content types to Yes and click on OK as shown in the figure below.
Then from the List settings page Navigate to the Content Type section and click on Item content type as shown in the figure below.
   
                                        
From the Item content type page, Navigate to the Columns section click on the Title column as shown in the figure below.
Then from the Title column type change select the option as Hidden as shown in the figure below and click on OK.
Now go to the List Settings and click on the Title column and select No to Require that this column contains information as shown in the figure below.
Now from the list settings page go to the click on the default view (All Item) view and deselect the Title column as shown in the figure below.
Now check the list, the Title column will not appear.

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