How to hide Activity stream
Asked by J?rg Kaufmann:

Is there any possibility to turn off activity stream or at least give permission not see it?


Answers:
author: Fadoua
body: [@J?rg Kaufmann](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1395906)

JIRA

Administration Console -\> User Interface -\> System Dashboard

See which gadget you want to remove

comments: author: Fadoua
body: [@J?rg Kaufmann](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1395906)

Please make sure to test it in a Dev or Staging environment before you make any change.

Confluence:

Administration Console -\> Configuration -\> Global Templates and Blueprints -\> Global page blueprints -\> Space Dashboard

![Screen Shot 2018-06-29 at 8.11.10 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/25756iC0BFE6D5537E8837/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-06-29 at 8.11.10 AM.png")


author: Fadoua
body: [@Sarah](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1179824)I feel honored that my answer was voted up by an Atlassian Engineer


author: Alea Stein
body: I'm also trying to do this but I do not have a space dashboards section. Moreover, I want to turn off/remove the activity stream from the homepage, not just in individual spaces.


author: Nadia Zatsepin
body: I can see **Confluence Activity Stream Plugin** in the System Apps list (Confluence Cloud) but can not find a way to disable it. Is it only possible to disable if I run Confluence on my own server?

comments: author: Fadoua
body: [@Nadia Zatsepin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1326998)

In general it is not recommended to make any changes to System plugins.

In Server Edition you can hide the Activity Stream.

Best,

Fadoua


author: Nadia Zatsepin
body: Thanks but that doesn't answer my question - I can't see a way to disable the stream. Does that mean it's not possible on the cloud version?

Nadia


author: Fadoua
body: [@Nadia Zatsepin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1326998)Did you try Ben Andersen's (Atlassian Team) suggestion on this thread?

Best,

Fadoua


author: Nadia Zatsepin
body: I did look for that option before posting but my menu for Confluence site administration has "PDF stylesheet" but no "stylesheet" under "general configuration". All I see under general config is title, message, formatting and international settings.

thanks,

Nadia


author: Fadoua
body: [@Nadia Zatsepin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1326998)please click [here](https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/) and open a support request with Atlassian.

Best,

Fadoua


author: Matt Doar
body: How about finding which add-on module provides the Activity Stream and disabling that module? In staging of course. May need some source code searching to find the exact add-on and module name

comments: author: Matt Doar
body: My money is on

#### Confluence Activity Stream Plugin {#toc-hId-1456754707}


author: Fadoua
body: If it is a system add-on I think Atlassian never recommend to disable them.


author: Matt Doar
body: Not without careful testing and checking with Support. But we run without the Jira plugin that pops up things for new users in production.


author: Fadoua
body: Good to know thank you Matt! I am having hard time tagging you. I get an HTML error


author: Alea Stein
body: Will that disable activity in Jira as well as Confluence? I don't want to do anything that's going to mess with Jira


author: Fadoua
body: [@Alea Stein](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2370971)that should do it in Confluence only.


author: Sarah
body: Hi J?rg,

It's possible to hide the activity stream in Confluence Server by modifying the global style sheets.

However, please note that this is not a secure restriction but is instead simply hiding the content from view.

Add this to the Global Style sheets:

```
.nav-item-container-all-updates, header.content-header-all-updates, ul.list-container-all-updates {
 display: none;
}???
```

comments: author: J?rg Kaufmann
body: Thank you Ben

To be honest, I don't even know where to find the Global Style sheets ?


author: Sarah
body: Hi J?rg,

No worries.

To modify the global style sheets,

1. Choose ![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/files/747833194/747833195/2/1517274813281/cog.png) \> **General Configuration** \> **Stylesheet** .
2. Choose **Edit**.
3. Paste the above CSS into the text field.
4. Choose **Save**.

Administrator access is needed to make this change.

You can find more information [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/styling-confluence-with-css-166528400.html).

Hope this helps!


author: J?rg Kaufmann
body: Hi Ben

Thanks again for this information. I was able to follow the steps but I only got to "General Configuration" There are still no stylesheets visible even though I have admin rights.

KR

J?rg


author: Alea Stein
body: I second Jurg. The activity stream is confusing and a distraction to our users, I need to disable it but am still at a loss.


author: Fadoua
body: [@Alea Stein](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2370971)are you a Confluence Server or Cloud User?


author: Alea Stein
body: [@Fadoua](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1164417) Cloud


author: Fadoua
body: [@Alea Stein](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2370971)Did you try the steps suggested above?


author: Alea Stein
body: I tried to follow the steps above. The steps are to go into General Config and then Stylesheet. I do not have an option for Stylesheet in General Config, the only Stylesheet option is PDF Stylesheet in Look and Feel. I copied the CSS into the PDF Stylesheet to no avail


author: Fadoua
body: [@Alea Stein](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2370971)

Go to Confluence Administration

Configuration -\> Global Templates and Blueprints -\> System Templates -\> Default Space Content

Click Edit and them remove Recent space Activity

Best,


author: Alea Stein
body: [@Fadoua](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1164417) I appreciate the answer but it's not actually what I'm trying to do. I want to remove the Activity from the sidebar. In fact what I really want to do is to customize the sidebar so that it shows all the Spaces and they're expandable for people to navigate through the pages that way, and that's all that's in the sidebar (no activity, your work, spaces folder, or my spaces - just one customized view that I can set for the org). Thanks so much for your responses

![Activity.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39563i780C47E62C47655D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Activity.png")


author: Fadoua
body: [@Alea Stein](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2370971)I don't see a way to remove "Activity" from Confluence side bar.

Let me check with other champions to make sure I am not missing anything.


author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Jurg,

Please see link below that a similar question  
<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-can-I-restrict-the-Activity-Stream-on-the-System-Dashboard/qaq-p/363629>

Victor

comments: author: Fadoua
body: User selected as tag Confluence, let's make sure that's exactly what he is looking for [@Victor Mutambuki](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/912991).

[@J?rg Kaufmann](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1395906)are you trying to hide it in JIRA or Confluence?


author: J?rg Kaufmann
body: [@Fadoua](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1164417)  
Thank you for the response. I am actually trying to hide it from both but I am more concerned about Confluence.

I will try the way explained in the link.

Thx.