Applies to:

SharePoint Online

Description

In a modern SharePoint site, web parts present meaningful content. However, in some cases, SharePoint administrators may need to disable a specific web part.

This article explains how to disable ‘HTML Text—Crow Canyon’ SPFx web part at the tenant level.

Points to note:

Before proceeding to disable any of the web parts, below points should be considered:

1. Only SharePoint administrators can govern this setting.
2. Web parts utilizing third-party services can be disabled.
3. If disabled, web parts previously added on the page will not be rendered.

Detailed steps

1. To disable the web part, it is required to know its GUID. If GUID of the web part is unknown and the web part has not yet been added to a page, then it must first be added to a site page to retrieve the GUID before it can be disabled.

Note: If the web part has been already added to a page but the GUID is not known, proceed directly to #5.

2. To add web part to a site page, navigate to the page and click ‘Edit’ as shown below:

3. When the page is opened in ‘Edit’ mode, click ‘+’ sign available on the page to add a web part and search for ‘HTML Text – Crow Canyon’ as shown below:

4. Select the above shown web part to add it to the page and then re-publish the page.

5. Open the web part in maintenance mode by appending “?maintenancemode=true” at the end of page URL as shown below:

6. Select ‘HTML Text – Crow Canyon’ web part displaying all the details as shown below:

7. Click “Copy data” button to copy summary of the web part and paste it in notepad. ‘Id’ parameter highlighted in the above image represents GUID of the ‘HTML Text – Crow Canyon’ web part.

8. Remove “?maintenancemode=true” from the end of site page URL to leave the maintenance mode.

9. For disabling ‘HTML Text – Crow Canyon’ web part, execute the below command in PowerShell:

Set-SPOTenant -DisabledWebPartIds 24d191de-0f3c-4b58-99d6-d1d58efd9fa4

Note: The web part(s) can be disabled at tenant level and cannot be selectively disabled on a particular SharePoint site.