A clean, organized navigation menu is paramount to a successful user experience.
Before you start moving your menu items around, take a quick moment to think about your goals for your guide. What do you want your users to see first? Which menu items are most important for your users? How should your users spend most of their time in your guide?
If one of your goals is to provide a robust schedule for your users, make sure the Schedule menu item is near the top of the menu, for example. Consider setting the Interact feed as your home screen, if one of your goals is to promote engagement and dialogue among your users.
Adding New Features
In the Guidebook Builder, open the guide you'd like to edit. From the main guide-building screen, there are two ways to add a new feature:
In the Guidebook Builder, open the guide you'd like to edit. From the main guide-building screen, click Add features to your guide in the top-left corner of the guide-building screen
Scroll through the list of available features, and click Add for the menu item(s) you'd like to include.
Reorganizing Your Features
In Builder, it's quick and easy to reorder your menu items as you'd like. Just click to drag and drop menu items. You can even drag menu items in and out of Folders.
Changing Module Icons
Changing module icons is a great way to give your guide a tailored look and feel. Guidebook Builder allows you to choose any icon from our expansive library.
- From the guide-building screen, click on a menu item.
- Click on the Settings tab for that menu item.
- You will see an Icon setting. Click the Change button.
- Explore the icon library to select your icon.
- Don't forget to save.
Guides on an Engage (previously Premium) plan may upload their own custom icons. For more information about customizing your icons, check out our guide to custom icons.
Disabling/Enabling Features
You may want to show certain menu items to app users only or to web users only. You may want to hide certain menu items from all users until you’re ready to share that information or tool. The information might be incomplete, or you want to reveal an awards list at a certain time, or just a menu item you don’t want to use.
- From the guide-building screen, click on a menu item.
- Click on the Settings tab for that menu item.
- In the “Availability” section, use the toggles to customize the app and web experiences.
You can delete a menu item if you would like, but there is no undo function.
Adding Folders
Keep your guide clutter-free and easy to navigate with folders. Your users will appreciate a clean menu of clearly labelled items in your guide.
Click on the Folder to expand it. Click on the ellipsis (⋯) button to open Folder Settings where you can change the name and icon of your folder.
How to Manage Content within Folders
Click on the Folder so the arrow points down, indicating it is open. The menu will expand to show the menu items already in your folder. Simply click and drag menu items in and out of your folder.
You can put a folder inside of a folder, however, you cannot nest any further. This means you cannot have a folder in a folder in a folder, etc. If you have a lot of information to organize consider using Custom Lists or multiple folders on the main menu itself.