Navigation Menu

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.

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.

How to activate and customize the Cosmos Navigation Menu

Follow these simple steps to enhance your Confluence workspace with the Cosmos Navigation Menu:

1. Activation: Begin by accessing Cosmos from the Apps dropdown menu in your Confluence navigation bar. Navigate to the 'Settings' area within Cosmos to find the navigation configuration options.

2. 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.

3. 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:

• Navigation Entries: 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.

Personalize navigation entries

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.

1. Click on the edit button for the desired navigation entry.

2. Find and click on the lock button located in the right upper corner.

3. 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 additional filter to define which user groups can view the navigation entry.

Publish navigation

Within the navigation configuration interface, there's a toggle feature that provides a straightforward way to enable or disable navigation for the whole Confluence instance. 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.

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.