Advanced Navigation
Advanced Navigation shows your site navigation from any page, without the browser extension. It's the app's way of surfacing your Site panel menu to users who don't have the extension installed.
How it works
When a user opens Advanced Navigation, an overlay appears across the top of the page. It keeps the Confluence logo but replaces the search bar and the other header buttons with your navigation.
Advanced Navigation draws from your Site panel menu. There's nothing separate to configure: whatever you build as your Site panel menu is what appears here. System items aren't shown.
Before you start
Advanced Navigation appears only when you have a Site panel menu. Until you create one, there's nothing for it to show, and the button to open it doesn't appear. See Configure navigation menus.
How users open it
There are two ways in:
Click the chevron button below the Confluence search bar.
Select it from Apps in the Confluence sidebar.
Always-visible navigation
Advanced Navigation is what users get when your navigation isn't shown as a permanent bar.
On the Navigation menus page, Enable always-visible navigation toggle controls this. When it's on, your Site panel menu sits on the page as a permanent bar. When it's off, that bar is replaced by the Open advanced navigation button, and users open the navigation only when they want it. This suits people who'd rather keep the screen space.
See Configure navigation menus for the setting.