Sidebar Trigger
Opens the side drawer. Without one placed, the Side Nav zone is unreachable.
Before you start
Section titled “Before you start”| Plugin | None |
| Endpoint group | None |
| Plan | Every plan |
Add it to your app
Section titled “Add it to your app”- Put your features on the Side Nav tab first, so the drawer has contents.
- Drag Sidebar Trigger onto the Upper Nav, Top Nav or Bottom Nav — somewhere members can see it.
- If you have more than one drawer, choose which it opens.
Settings
Section titled “Settings”| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Sidebar | Which drawer this opens | The main drawer |
| Title, Description | The label | Empty |
| Restrictions | Which roles see it | Everyone |
More than one drawer
Section titled “More than one drawer”On Pro and Unlimited an app can have up to ten named drawers, and each Sidebar Trigger opens the one you point it at. Free has the single drawer every app starts with, so every trigger there opens the same menu.
Useful when one part of your app has its own set of destinations — a shop drawer alongside a community drawer, for instance. Most apps need one, and a second drawer is worth adding only when the first has become a list nobody reads.
Where to put it
Section titled “Where to put it”The upper nav bar is the conventional home for a menu button, which is why upper nav shares its row with the menu, logo and title.
The top-left of the top nav is the other place members look. A bottom-nav slot works, though it costs one of eight and members expect destinations there.
Searching a long drawer
Section titled “Searching a long drawer”Each drawer has a Show search box setting, on the Side Nav tab. With it on, members get a field at the top of that drawer that filters it as they type — matching group headings as well as items, and opening a collapsed group to reveal a match inside it. The text clears whenever the drawer closes, so it never greets the next open with a half-empty menu.
It is per drawer, and on every plan. Worth turning on once a drawer holds enough that scanning it takes a moment; a drawer of six does not need it.
What your members see
Section titled “What your members see”The drawer slides in over the current screen, and tapping outside it or choosing a feature closes it again. The trigger itself is not a screen.
When it does not work
Section titled “When it does not work”| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| The drawer never opens | No Sidebar Trigger is placed in a visible bar | Place one |
| It opens an empty drawer | Nothing is on the Side Nav tab | Add features there |
| It opens the wrong drawer | The Sidebar setting points elsewhere | Change it |
| There is only one drawer to choose | Free includes one | Pro and Unlimited allow ten |
| It is on the Upper Nav and invisible | Upper navigation is off, or not on your plan | Enable it; Free has no upper nav |
| Members cannot find it | It is in an unexpected place | Move it to the upper or top nav |