Adding external links on the sidebar in portal?

Feature Requests
1

Hi! Have you ever considered allowing us to add an external link on the side toolbar in a portal? I would love to link to some educational materials, courses, etc and make my portal into a home base for my larger ecosystem!

2

Hi @puregenerators ,

Thank you for the feature request! I’ll share this with the team.

For now, a workaround is to create a sidebar item, such as a content page, and add custom code that redirects users to an external URL when they click it.

You can add this script to the Body custom code section of your workspace or portal:

<script>
(function () {
  const TARGET_LABEL = "this is a hyperlink";
  const REDIRECT_URL = "https://example.com";

  document.addEventListener(
    "click",
    function (event) {
      const button = event.target.closest("button");
      if (!button) return;

      const label = button.querySelector("p");
      if (!label) return;

      if (label.textContent.trim() === TARGET_LABEL) {
        event.preventDefault();
        event.stopPropagation();
        event.stopImmediatePropagation();

        window.location.href = REDIRECT_URL;
      }
    },
    true
  );
})();
</script>

Please replace TARGET_LABEL with the exact name of the navigation/menu item you want to turn into a link.

Then replace https://example.com with the external URL you want users to be redirected to.