How to add an Area to Navigation (sitemap) in Model Driven apps/ Dynamics 365 apps

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show how to insert a new Area to navigation in a model-driven apps designer.

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This blog is also relevant if your requirement is to add/ remove in navigation of following Dynamics 365 customer engagement apps.

• Dynamics 365 Sales
• Dynamics 365 Customer Service
• Dynamics 365 Field Service
• Dynamics 365 Project Operations
• Dynamics 365 Marketing

Without further ado, let’s get started. First of all what is an Area in Model-driven apps/ Dynamics 365 apps navigation?

Below illustration show the Areas in the navigation pane of Dynamics 365

Let’s say we want to add an area to our app navigation. We open the Model driven app designer. However there is no place from where you can add an area in the navigation.

You have the ability to create a group but not an area.

At this point, I find many customizers fall back to classic designer just to add an Area, thereby losing many benefits of the new designer.

The reason is, the ability to add an Area in navigation is not enabled by default in the Model-driven app designer.

To enable it, click of the Menu beside Navigation and then click on Settings.

From the Navigation tab, enabled Areas.

Once done, you now have the ability to add an Area.

As you can see, I have added couple of Areas and I can navigate across areas using dropdown arrows.

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Debajit Dutta
Business Solutions MVP