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Setting up knowledge base menus
Learn about how to update your knowledge base header and footer menus
Updated: December 8, 2023
2 mins read
AssistFlare has a powerful menu editor which allows you to easily edit your header for footer menus. The location of the header and footer menus are as follows:
![The top being the header menu, the bottom being the footer menu](https://docs.assistflare.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notion.so%2Fimage%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fprod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%252F4bbbb06f-3159-41f0-9c13-839b868700aa%252F2c365d7e-7c14-4300-a353-3d9c668541c7%252FUntitled.png%3Ftable%3Dblock%26id%3D0926d464-8df2-47c2-94a3-f9c92df5ba36%26cache%3Dv2&w=1920&q=80)
To edit the header or footer menu, from the knowledge base dashboard:
- Navigate to the
Look & Feel
link under the Settings section from the left navigation menu.
- Click on the
Menus
section which will open up the menu editor sheet.
- From the menu editor, you can select the menu you want to edit at the top:
Header Menu
orFooter Menu
.
![notion image](https://docs.assistflare.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notion.so%2Fimage%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fprod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%252F4bbbb06f-3159-41f0-9c13-839b868700aa%252Fea1d4df1-40c8-498b-a27e-a1396741b507%252FUntitled.png%3Ftable%3Dblock%26id%3D19175fb1-8d78-4a83-82f4-670ea52a7430%26cache%3Dv2&w=1920&q=80)
- From the left menu editor pane, you can choose to add a menu item of type:
External Link
,Collection
orArticle
. - External Link: A link you want to provide which can be a link to an external site or even one to an internal article.
- Collection: A link to one of the collections you have within the knowledge base. AssistFlare will automatically determine the URL of the collection and link to it.
- Article: A link to one of the articles you have within your knowledge base. AssistFlare will again automatically determine the URL of the article and link to it.
- Drag the type you want to add from the left pane to the right pane.
- If you choose External Link, you need to provide at least the URL for the external link.
- For each menu item type, you can specify whether you want to open the link in a new tab or not
![notion image](https://docs.assistflare.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notion.so%2Fimage%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fprod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%252F4bbbb06f-3159-41f0-9c13-839b868700aa%252Fcc563d5b-f03d-474e-8440-12eae4898dca%252FUntitled.gif%3Ftable%3Dblock%26id%3D23b084a6-96d2-4cf3-a27a-e16889acf4a5%26cache%3Dv2&w=1920&q=80)
- You can re-order the items within a menu by dragging them using the drag handles on the left to the correct position you want to have them in.
![notion image](https://docs.assistflare.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notion.so%2Fimage%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fprod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%252F4bbbb06f-3159-41f0-9c13-839b868700aa%252F67131a0c-7e11-480c-b0d2-0b513ddb999d%252FUntitled.gif%3Ftable%3Dblock%26id%3Db276ce1f-a731-4156-9f65-30405ee2c799%26cache%3Dv2&w=1920&q=80)
- Once you are done, click
Back to Customizations
and hitSave Customizations
to save your menu.
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