Overview of Jira’s navigation

What is Jira’s navigation?

Whether you’re switching between projects, tracking progress, or collaborating with your team, finding what you need quickly is essential. Jira’s navigation is designed to be intuitive, flexible, and built to scale with your team’s needs. Key components of Jira’s navigation include:

• The top navigation or top bar: The top bar contains actions that affect your entire site. These include searching, creating, switching sites and apps, and accessing utility items like notifications, global settings, Rovo chat, and your account.
• The side navigation or sidebar: Navigation in Jira starts from the sidebar, where you can work across multiple projects, access essential items, and use Atlassian apps.
• The project navigation: You can seamlessly switch between different views and explore features that pertain to the project you're viewing.
• The main content area: The main content area is your primary workspace, and this is where the actual work happens.

Understand your navigation

The top bar, sidebar, project navigation, and main content area together form your view of the navigation.

What is Jira’s top navigation?

The top navigation or top bar keeps the focus on your essential tasks, such as Search and Create. With just a few clicks, you can search and locate work items, pages, and projects.

No matter where you are in Jira, the top bar is always present, so you can locate your work easily. The actions and elements on the top bar remain the same between Atlassian apps for consistency and smooth navigation throughout the Atlassian apps.

What is Jira’s sidebar?

Navigation starts from the sidebar, and you can work across multiple projects and boards by easily switching between them.

Jira features a persistent sidebar across all your work to give you contextual awareness. This ensures that you know where you are at all times and have easy access to navigation options.

What is Jira’s project navigation?

The horizontal project navigation in Jira offers different views that allow software and business teams to work in a way that suits them, while staying connected all in one place.

While the sidebar lets you seamlessly navigate between different Jira projects, the project navigation allows you to change between different views and explore features that pertain to the project you're viewing. If you’re a project admin, you can customize the project navigation to suit your team’s needs and reduce clutter.

What is the main content area?

This is your primary workspace, where you’ll work with projects, boards, and work items. Whether you're planning sprints, tracking issues, viewing a roadmap, or reviewing a board, this is the space where you see and interact with your work.

The content in this space is dynamically updated based on your interaction with other navigation items.