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  • Product: HighQ
  • Subject: Dashboards

Modernised Site Navigation

The Modernised site navigation bar provides a streamlined, left-aligned vertical navigation experience to improve usability, accessibility, and customisation across HighQ sites. It replaces the traditional horizontal navigation with a modern interface, enabling users to access sites, modules, and frequently used utilities more efficiently while maximising available screen space for content.
The design supports both site-only navigation and combined global and site navigation configurations, while allowing administrators to enable or disable the feature through a system-level setting.

Enabling the Modernised Navigation Bar

To enable the Modernised Navigation Bar, navigate to
System admin
 >
System settings
, and toggle
Enable Modernized Navigation
 to
ON
.
note
Enabling this feature changes the navigation experience across the entire HighQ instance for both internal and external users across all sites.
Once enabled, navigation items are reorganised as follows:
  • System-level navigation bar (top)
    : Standard system-level items remain in their current positions, while all customised modules are grouped under the
    More+
     option.
  • Site-level navigation bar (left sidebar)
    : Moves from the top to a vertical layout on the left side of the screen, giving quick access to
    Favourites
    ,
    Recent
    , and
    Notifications/Tasks
    .
This vertical sidebar prioritises frequently used options, helping users quickly access important information and frequently visited content, without repeating the full navigation restructure.
The navigation panel can be expanded or collapsed using the navigation toggle icon. When collapsed, only menu icons are displayed, providing more screen space for page content.
To improve usability, the navigation bar includes the following behaviours:
  • Flyout submenus that expand from the menu when additional navigation levels are available.
  • Collapsed navigation support, keeping menu icons visible even when space is limited.
  • Tooltips that display menu names when hovering over icons in the collapsed state.
  • Sticky utility sections that remain visible even when the navigation menu contains many items.

Switching Between Sites

To access a different site from the current one, click
Select site
 from the navigation menu to open the
Sites
 panel. The panel displays recently viewed sites, allowing quick access to frequently used sites.
Select a site name to open that site. Use the
Search
 box to find a specific site or add sites to
Favourites
 for easier access.
For more information about adding or editing site and global navigation items, see Custom site navigation and Customise the global navigation bar.