How to Remove Recent and Most Popular dashboard links on the OBIEE home page?

In one of our application, we faced an issue raised by the users.

The OBIEE home page, shows the most recent and the most popular dashboards/reports. The users wanted to remove that part. After many hit and trial, we got the workaround from the Oracle.




There are some enhancement requests to add such feature to the product in the future:
Enhancement Bug 16016867 HOW TO REMOVE ??RECENT?? AND ??MOST POPULAR?? SECTIONS ON BI HOME PAGE?
Enhancement Bug 10173641 ENABLE A MEANS TO REMOVE LINKS - SEARCH, HOME, CATALOG, NEW, OPEN
Enhancement Bug 17219856 - OBIEE 11.1.1.7 AVAILABILITY TO CLEAR RECENT ITEMS ON HOMEPAGE

On the other hand, a workaround is available and documented in the following note, which is used to remove the "Get Started" section:
OBIEE 11g: How to Suppress the "Get Started" Section on the Home Page [ID 1374493.1]

The action plan in this document can be slightly modified, to remove the "Recent" and "Most Popular" instead:

1. Copy the bieehome.htm file as below:

From:
<MW_Home>\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\web\msgdb\pages\bieehome\

To:
<MW_Home>\instances\instance1\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1\msgdb\pages\bieehome\
Note:
Create the relevant directories under <MW_Home>\instances\instance1\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1 as necessary (if they do not already exist).


2. Open <MW_Home>\instances\instance1\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1\msgdb\pages\bieehome\bieehome.htm for editing

3. Search for the following in the file:
<!-- Recent -->

4. Delete the rows in the HTML Table (see the <tr> tags) under <!-- Recent --> as below:

5. Repeat Steps 3 and 4 for the entry "<!-- Favorites -->" , which concerns the "Most Popular" section.

6. Save the file

7. Restart all OBIEE Services

Important Note:
These changes may be lost should OBIEE be upgraded to a higher release in the future so please ensure that this change is documented and monitor it during any future upgrades.

Thanks,
Angad