Lightning App Navigation Bar Items

Most of the items that appear in the App Launcher can appear in a Lightning app navigation bar. To add items to an app’s navigation bar, you can use the Lightning app creation wizard, which lets you choose from a list of available items.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Professional, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
User Permissions Needed
To view navigation menus: View Setup and Configuration
To create navigation menus: Customize Application

The list of available items contains only those items in your org that are eligible for Lightning app navigation bars, which includes:

  • Most standard objects, including Home, the main Chatter feed, Groups, and People
  • Your org’s custom objects and apps
  • Visualforce tabs
  • Lightning component tabs
  • Lightning page tabs
  • Canvas apps via Visualforce tabs
  • Web tabs

If the Lightning app was installed from a managed package, you can append navigation items below the original set of navigation items included in the Lightning app, which are locked.

Note
Note

You can’t add Connected apps like Gmail™ and Microsoft® Office 365™ to the navigation bar. Users can continue to access them from the App Launcher.