Harness the power of the Cosmos Navigation bar, a sophisticated feature designed to streamline your navigation experience within Confluence. By integrating this feature, users gain rapid access to essential content and functionalities, enhancing efficiency and collaboration across teams.
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We’re not just about improving access to important content; we’re here to personalize the experience. Users can tailor the navigation based on specific Confluence spaces or customize visibility for distinct user groups, ensuring a relevant and efficient user journey.
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The Cosmos Navigation simplifies finding one's way around Confluence, providing quick access to important content and features. This enhances work efficiency and improves team collaboration.
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Navigation entries can be customized to be visible in specific Confluence spaces and to particular user collections, defining a personalized experience by controlling where and to whom the navigation appears.
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Steps to activate and customize the Cosmos Navigation
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Follow these simple steps to enhance your Confluence workspace with the Cosmos Navigation Menu:
Activation: Begin by accessing Cosmos From your Confluence navigation bar, access Cosmos by selecting it from the Apps dropdown menu in your Confluence navigation bar. Navigate .
Within Cosmos, proceed to the 'Settings' area within Cosmos to find the navigation configuration options.
Configuration: Click on 'Configuration' within the navigation settings. Here, you'll encounter the 'Add Menu Option' button, which unveils a range of navigation styles for selection.
Choose your preferred navigation style by previewing each and clicking on the one that aligns with your needs.
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Personalization and Layout Design:
After selecting a style, configure its layout and design, tailoring the navigation bar to your specific requirements.
Manage navigation entries by adding subentries, defining their design, and linking them to relevant content, thereby creating a coherent and functional navigation experience.
In-Depth Configuration Options
Cosmos Navigation bar customization extends through various aspects, ensuring you can craft a navigation interface that resonates with your organization's identity and requirements:
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In the Settings menu, locate the Navigation section and click on Configuration.
Ensure the “Published” toggle remains OFF during setup, until you are ready to publish your navigation.
Select the “Add Menu Option'“ button to explore a variety of navigation styles available for your choice. Hover over each style to identify the best match for the intended use case.
After finalizing all menu entries, adjust the design to accommodate both light and dark modes.
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Begin adding subentries to each menu entry, incorporating the appropriate content.
For each entry and subentry, additional layout and design options are available. Adapt these according to the specific use case and verify the changes in the live preview.
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Configuration options
Customization of the Cosmos Navigation bar includes a variety of options, facilitating the creation of a navigation interface that aligns with the identity and requirements of an organization.
Design styles → Explore diverse styles like London, Sydney, Denver, Palo Alto, Hum, and Houston, each offering unique design elements and layout options.
London and Sydney → These configurations present a refined layout, incorporating aesthetic improvements to deliver a user-centric navigation experience.
Denver → Characterized by its visual orientation, this style introduces an image-accompanied navigation option, providing multiple link integrations. Users can choose from different image dimensions (Small, Medium, Large) and presentation modes (Icon or Plain Text).
Palo Alto → This option allows for an extensive selection of app logos, including custom choices from the Optics Styleguide, facilitating the creation of an engaging and visually coherent menu.
Hum → Emphasizing minimalism, this style offers a straightforward link-based navigation, ideal for users seeking simplicity and efficiency.
Houston → Focused on space utility, this style enhances the visibility of critical spaces within the navigation framework, ensuring rapid access to pertinent content.
Design Personalization: From adjusting visual elements like colors and logos to setting specific visibility rules, Cosmos Navigation empowers you to design a navigation bar that not only looks great but is also incredibly intuitive
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Design options → Cosmos Navigation features a broad selection of layout and design options for the main navigation, menu entries, and subentries, according to the design style. The goal is to provide numerous customization possibilities for adjusting and personalizing Cosmos navigation.
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The Design tab, powered by Optics, is accessible for users holding a valid Optics license and offers a suite of options to make the Cosmos Navigation Menu fit your brand identity. |
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All colors in the navigation can be customized for both light and dark modes, ensuring optimal personalization. This flexibility is essential, as more than 80% of our customers prefer using Confluence in Dark mode. |
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By setting view permissions based on Collections, admins can ensure that navigation entries are visible only to relevant user groups. Furthermore, admins can specify the Confluence spaces where each navigation entry should be displayed, providing a tailored navigation experience that aligns with the unique structure and needs of the organization.
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Personalization
Admins can control who sees navigation entries by using Collections to set view permissions for specific user groups. They can also choose which Confluence spaces to show each navigation entry in, making navigation fit the organization's unique needs better.
For personalizing a specific navigation entry, simply click the edit button.
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Find and click on the lock button located in the right upper corner.
Set the visibility options:
Determine if the navigation entry should be visible to anonymous users. (Only applied if the Confluence instance is opened for anonymous access)
Specify the Confluence spaces where this navigation entry will be displayed.
Use collections as an and additional filter filters to define which user groups users can view the navigation entry.
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Publish navigation
Within In the navigation configuration interfacesettings, there's a simple toggle feature that provides a straightforward way to enable or disable navigation to turn navigation on or off for the whole Confluence instancesite. This functionality allows admins to easily publish the navigation once its configuration is complete, ensuring everything is set up perfectly before making it visible to users.
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Additionally, this toggle offers the flexibility to hide the navigation from all users at any time, granting admins control over the availability and visibility of navigation options based on the organization's current needs or preferences. This feature ensures that navigation can be managed efficiently, keeping the user experience optimized and aligned with ongoing updates or changes.lets admins set up everything first and then easily make the navigation live for users once it's ready.
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Please note an important consideration regarding the navigation feature and Atlassian's native PDF export functionality. When navigation is enabled within Cosmos, it becomes part of the content exported using Atlassian's built-in page PDF export feature. This behavior has been identified, reproduced, and formally reported to Atlassian's technical team for review and resolution. |
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