# General Navigation

Source: https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/navigating-astalty/general-navigation

> The different ways to navigate to features, settings, and profiles in Astalty.

## Overview

Use the Side Menu to open features and the Top Menu for common actions. The options you see depend on your permissions and the features enabled for your account.

![The Astalty Dashboard with the Side Menu outlined down the left, showing Search, Dashboard, Favourites and the Work, Manage, Insights, Library and Configure sections, and the Top Menu outlined across the top, showing Support, User Guide, Training, Create Task, SMS, Chat and notifications.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/navigating-astalty.png)

## Side Menu

The Side Menu links to features, profiles and settings. Your user menu is at the bottom.

When your menu is grouped into sections, **Dashboard** and **Favourites** sit at the top and the other features sit under **Work**, **Manage**, **Insights**, **Library** and **Configure**. Select a section to open it. **Search** above them opens the [Quick Action Menu](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/navigating-astalty/quick-action-menu).

![The Side Menu with marker 1 on the menu, from Search, Dashboard and Favourites to the Work section, open on Scheduling, Tasks, Action Items and Calendar, and the Manage, Insights, Library and Configure sections, and marker 2 on the user menu at the bottom, which shows the signed-in user's name and email.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/sidebar-menu.png)

### Side Menu Toggle

Open your user menu at the bottom of the Side Menu, then select **Sidebar Behaviour**. Choose **Manual** to control the sidebar yourself, or **Automatic** for automatic expansion and collapse.

![The user menu opened from the bottom of the Side Menu, with Sidebar Behaviour expanded to show Manual, which is ticked and shows its keyboard shortcut, and Automatic. My Profile, Training and Log out sit below.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/account-menu.png)

Use the top toggle button, **CMD + B** on Mac or **CTRL + B** on Windows to expand or collapse the Side Menu. The keyboard shortcut does not run while you are typing in an input or editor.

## Top Menu

The Top Menu contains:

1. The Side Menu toggle.
2. **Support** and **User Guide**.
3. A quick task button.
4. **SMS** and **Chat** shortcuts, when those features are enabled.
5. **Notifications**.

New users may also see **Training**.

![The Top Menu with numbered markers on the sidebar toggle (1), Support and User Guide (2), Create Task (3), the SMS and Chat shortcuts (4) and the highlighted notifications bell (5), with Training after User Guide.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/top-menu.png)