Custom left navigation
Some features of Confluence 3.x are not fully supported by this theme. Do not start using this theme now. If you are already using it, please consider moving to a different theme as soon as possible. We suggest the Documentation theme, as it provides a customisable left-hand navigation panel and additional configurable features. |
Confluence comes bundled with the Left Navigation theme. This theme has a navigation menu on the left-hand side of the screen, which can be customised to contain additional links, sections and even macros.
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By default, the left-navigation theme just displays the space icon (or profile icon for a personal space), and three menus: page operations, browse space, and add content.
To add your own content to the top, create a page in your space called 'Navigation'. Put content there that you want to appear on the left navigation menu.
A couple of tips:
As an example, create a page called 'Navigation' with the following content:
h1. Search engines * [Google|http://www.google.com] * [Yahoo|http://www.yahoo.com] * [MSN|http://search.msn.com] |
This will give a left navigation menu like the image on the side of this page.
You can see another example of customised left-navigation theme on the Codegeist space with its associated Navigation page.
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To insert an expandable/collapsible left-hand navigation menu, try the {pagetree} macro, supplied by the PageTree Plugin. You can follow the instructions to add the {pagetree} macro to your Confluence page layout. Note that this looks better if you use the Confluence Default theme rather than the Left Navigation theme. |