# Side Navigation and Table of Contents to SharePoint Pages

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**Created:** [March 11, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://community.origamiconnect.com/t/side-navigation-and-table-of-contents-to-sharepoint-pages/916 "2025-03-11T00:19:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://community.origamiconnect.com/t/side-navigation-and-table-of-contents-to-sharepoint-pages/916/1 "2025-03-11T00:19:40Z")

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> Sidebar navigation can pull pages from the site view, or show any links you select, making them searchable with a single click.

**Key features** :

- Dynamically show navigation items from a folder within or a view (great for a knowledge base)
- Search navigation items
- Target navigation items based on security groups
- Multi-level nesting
- Works great on a mobile

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Sidebar navigation for SharePoint  
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> **Initial set up**
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> 1. **Adding Origami Sidebar Navigation App**
> 
> - Click **(\*)** → **Add an app** on the SharePoint site in which you’d like to see the sidebar.
> 
> - If the Origami Sidebar Navigation is installed by the administrator, it can be added as shown below  
> 
> - Wait for the app to be added, usually just a few seconds.
> 
> 1. **Enabling and Customizing the Sidebar**
> 
> - When you enable the Sidebar app and go back to site homepage you will see a navigation callout like this:  
> 
> - Click on the callout to expand the navigation:  
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> - **Edit** the page to be able to access the Sidebar editing controls:  
> 
> - Start by adding a heading for your navigation, like this:  
> 
> - Click **Save** when ready to save the item.
> 
> - Add as many items as you need under the main item:

> **Automatically showing pages in the sidebar**
>
> You can make it so the Sidebar automatically shows pages from current site under Site Pages library.
> 
> You can pull pages by:
> 
> - **View** you create under Site Pages.  
> Here is how to [Create SharePoint view that will filter pages by metadata](https://community.origamiconnect.com/t/create-sharepoint-view-that-will-filter-pages-by-metadata/905)
> - **Folder** you create under Site Pages
> 
> Both options let you filter which pages to show.
> 
> Once you have a view URL, simply paste in to the URL field when adding new item to Sidebar, like this:
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> ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/origamiconnect/original/2X/4/4132f9711b972970a244bf626b87e8a88b0b953c.png)
> 
> As a result, Sidebar will automatically show pages from that view like this:
> 
> ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/origamiconnect/original/2X/8/810a0a4ad3452b4e963c293759fc361cd7bd846d.png)
> 
> When new pages are added to the site, if they match the view, the Sidebar show these pages automatically, no need to do anything.

> **Keep sidebar items always expanded**
>
> You can make it so sidebar items are always expanded when the user clicks the callout button:
> 
> ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/origamiconnect/original/2X/c/c0ac2263bd8528bd1094324c9100842ca2013027.png)
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> Simply go to settings and toggle **Keep all items expanded** to **On**
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> ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/origamiconnect/original/2X/5/59be53af28a82dee23ec70005d4638bd4663c904.png)

> **Keep sidebar always open**
>
> You can make it so sidebar is always open when the page is loaded:
> 
> Simply go to settings and toggle **Always keep Sidebar open** to **On**
> 
> ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/origamiconnect/original/2X/5/59be53af28a82dee23ec70005d4638bd4663c904.png)