WARNING: This is a totally unsupported procedure, do it at your own risk!
UPDATE 12-12-2019: this procedure has stopped working in 9.5 Update 4, because the configuration files have been moved. The principle is the same, but now to hide the Items tab you need to edit:
%Program Files%\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Enterprise Manager\WebApp\scripts\build\production\VCloud\resources\VCloud-all.css
And add this simple CSS rule to the end of the file to hide Items tab (since it’s last tab in menu)
.x-tab-top-menu:last-of-type {display: none;}
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 has introduced a complete set of self-service capabilities for VMware vCloud Director users. Service providers can offer these features to their users, and users can perform backups and restores in a complete self-service way. You can read more about this in a blog post I wrote a few months ago: Self-service backup and restore capabilities for VMware vCloud Director coming in Veeam Availability Suite 9.5.
However, because of network restrictions that are often in place in vCloud Director environments, some features like Item restores are not possible. So, some service providers asked me if it was possible to remove the ITEMS tab in the portal, just to make the user experience of the portal easier. Or maybe a provider doesn’t want to offer these capabilities at all to its customers. Whatever is the use case, there’s a way to remove the tab. Just remember as I’ve said at the beginning, this is totally unsupported!
This is the starting dashboard a tenant sees when he logs in:
The upper menu bar is managed via a specific css file, its name is app.min.css and is stored in C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Enterprise Manager\WebApp\css. You need to open the file with a text editor, and add these two lines at the end of the file:
#root-menu-item-e2dd7967-e271-43d0-8235-1a1e1daacf9d { visibility: hidden; }
#root-menu-item-80dc608d-7445-44d2-89cc-a4316c88b6a9 { margin-left: -100px; }
You can add those lines appended to the exiting text, or in two new lines, it doesn’t matter as the CSS format is highly forgiving. Once you have saved the file, and you have closed and re-opened your browser, you can login again in the portal, and this is what you will see:
Here we go, the ITEMS tab is gone!