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Top Navigation Menu Configuration

With this app, you can change existing menu items or create completely new menu entries for the top navigation bar in Jira. To get started, navigate to the app section in the global administration and click on the "Top Navigation" entry of the STAGIL Navigation app. Here you can add, edit, delete, manage, translate or move new entries to antoher place.STAGIL Navigation for Jira allows users to customise the top navigation structure and layout across the instance. Configuration allows for the following to be achieved:

  • add icons to panel entries

  • rename system entries (default Jira panel entries)

  • create a range of custom entries and sub-navigation panels

  • embed web links as entries

  • configure visibility for users via allow / block list

  • rearrange entries

  • translate entries

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To start configuration go to Manage apps → STAGIL Navigation → Top Navigation → Add navigation item. Here you can add, edit, delete, manage, translate or move new entries to another place.

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Renaming system menus

STAGIL Navigation gives you the ability to simply rename existing top navigation menus. You can do this by clicking on the display name of the menu item that you want to change, enter a new name and click on "Update".

To change the menu back to the default name, just remove the display name and hit "Update".

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For example, in the screenshot below we can see an expanded default Jira navigation entry ‘Issues’:

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Using the STAGIL Top Navigation feature ‘Issues’ have been renamed to ‘Search’ and highlighted with an icon.

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New navigation menu types

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Like for all menu types you can also choose , if this link should be opened in the same browser tab or in a new tab.

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A Project entry lets you create a list of all projects of a certain category. In the following screenshot, you can see the customization menu of a Project entry. This gives you a list of all projects that are labeled labelled with the category "Team". In the screenshot below you can also see that you have some more options to adjust the displayed project list. You can use regular expressions to filter the list by project key or project name and have them shown only to the selected project roles within these projects. It is possible to sort the sub-projects alphabetically as well as boards.

Please be aware that both filters will be applied at the same time when you fill in regular expressions for the project key AND project name.

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Agile Boards Entires

With the Agile Boards entry, you can access your Kanban and Scrum Boards by using the top navigation. By enabling "Show recent boards" each user can only see boards that he has recently visited.

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Separator

In a sub-navigation menu you can also choose a separator as a navigation entry which gives you more optical structure for your menu:

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