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
Sidebar navigation for SharePoint
Initial set up
- Adding Origami Sidebar Navigation App
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Click (*) → Add an app on the SharePoint site in which you’d like to see the sidebar.
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If the Origami Sidebar Navigation is installed by the administrator, it can be added as shown below
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Wait for the app to be added, usually just a few seconds.
- Enabling and Customizing the Sidebar
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When you enable the Sidebar app and go back to site homepage you will see a navigation callout like this:
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Click on the callout to expand the navigation:
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Edit the page to be able to access the Sidebar editing controls:
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Start by adding a heading for your navigation, like this:
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Click Save when ready to save the item.
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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 - 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:
As a result, Sidebar will automatically show pages from that view like this:
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:
Simply go to settings and toggle Keep all items expanded to On
