The navigation manager lets you organize and manage the structure of your brand guidelines in one place. You can add, edit, move, and share your documents, libraries, links, pages, and categories, so you can quickly build engaging guidelines that are easy to navigate and maintain.

To find the navigation manager, open your guideline in edit mode. You’ll find it in the left-hand navigation of the editing view. From there, you can view the hierarchy of your current guideline.

Use the navigation manager to add and organize content within your guidelines, including pages, documents, libraries, links, and document groups.

To add items to your guideline navigation, open the guideline in edit mode, then open Navigation manager. Next to Global navigation, select the + button and choose what you want to add from the menu.

You can choose Cover page, Document, Library, Link, or Document group. The items you add appear in the main global navigation of your guideline.

You can add a document or document group directly from Global navigation. Use document groups to create sub-levels in your guideline navigation and organize related content into a clear hierarchy.
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Within a document, you can add a category, page, or link to organize related content into clear sections.

Libraries appear in the frontend of your guideline when they are added through the navigation manager. Removing a library from the navigation manager removes its frontend access, but doesn’t delete the library from the backend.

Currently, libraries can only be shown in guidelines when they appear in the top-level navigation.

From a document in the navigation manager, you can add either a category or page. Use categories to group related content and keep your guideline navigation organized and easier to scan. Categories can include pages and links.

From a category, you can add pages. Pages sit at the end of the navigation hierarchy and can’t contain additional pages or categories.

Adding a heading block to a page creates a clickable link to that section in the guideline sidebar navigation. This helps users jump directly to sections within the page without changing the page structure in the navigation manager.
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Use links to connect your guidelines to other guidelines in Frontify or external resources or systems, such as a wiki or intranet. This helps users access related brand resources from the same navigation, even when the content lives outside your Frontify environment.

To add another guideline to your navigation, copy its link and add it using these steps:

For links to pages within Frontify, use the relative URL (the URL piece after your company’s Frontify URL) where possible rather than the full domain.
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Example: /hub/14 instead of https://company.frontify.com/hub/14.
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This helps to prevent links from breaking in case of a domain change.

Open the three-dot Actions menu on a page to manage it. From here, you can rename, publish or unpublish, hide, or duplicate the page. You can also copy a link to the page, move it under another document in the navigation, manage targets, or navigate to the page in view mode. To remove the page entirely, select Delete from the Actions menu.

Use these quick actions to make small changes without opening the full Actions menu.