Some sites feature a small navigation area, usually on the right or the left of the page content, showing other pages that live in the same section of the site.
For example, this training site uses a side navigation area.
Side navigation areas are typically used to allow quick access to the other pages in a section of a site; like a 'pages you can find in this area' section.
A side navigation displays a listing of all the pages or subsites that live in that particular section of the site.
Update the Navigation Links
To make changes to your side navigation, start from a page that shows the side navigation that you want to update. For example, if you want to update the site navigation in the Departments area, go to any page in the Departments area first before making the navigation settings update.
Click on the
Site Actions gear in the top right and
choose 'Site settings'.
- Click the
Navigation link under the Look and Feel heading.
- Scroll down to the
Structural Navigation: Editing and Sorting area of the page that shows a navigation box with some links.
You will see the links that show in the side navigation for this section of the site.
Hide, remove, and reorder links as you'd like.
Remember: If you have subsites in your navigation, like the Summary Links item in the image above, you can only show or hide the subsite at this level. The pages under the subsite are not shown here since each subsite has its own navigation settings that are controlled separately.
If you want to make changes to the links under that subsite (likely showing in a dropdown in your navigation), you must go to a page under
that subsite first and then access the navigation settings there to make changes.
- Click the OK button at the bottom of the page to apply your changes.
- Navigate back to the page that shows your side navigation and verify that the navigation is updated as you wanted.
Duplicated Dropdowns and Side Navigation
If one of your site's sections is displayed both in the top navigation as a dropdown and on a side navigation, making a change to the side navigation will automatically update for the matching section in the top navigation as well.
