Change the Menu Order

Overview

This guide explains how to reorder menu items in your site’s navigation using the My Sites interface in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
Changing the order of pages in the navigation helps control how items appear in menus, breadcrumbs, and site explorers.

1. Open My Sites

• Log in to Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
• In the Sites console, navigate to My Sites.
• Navigate through the folders until you reach your site.

2. Switch to Column View

By default, My Sites opens in Column view.
This view displays your site pages in nested columns, making it easier to locate where your pages live.

3. Switch to List View

To reorder pages, you must switch from Column View to List View.

• In the top-right corner of the My Sites interface, click the View toggle (looks like stacked lines).
• Select List View. And the "List view" allows you to drag and reorder pages within a folder.

4. Drag to Reorder Pages

Once in List View, find the pages you want to reorder.

• Hover over the right side of the page row you want to move.
• Click and drag the “vertical three dots” icon (⋮⋮) to move the page up or down in the order.
• Drop the page in the desired position. This updates the navigation order for that folder.

5. Reordered Pages

After dragging and dropping, the list will automatically update to show your new page order. The new order reflects how pages will appear in your site’s main navigation once published.

6. Publish Your Changes

Changing the order in My Sites updates the structure, but the menu will not refresh automatically until related pages are published.

You must publish:

• The site-level page (the top-level folder of your site)
• The language root page (for example, /en)
• The home or index page

This clears the site cache and refreshes navigation order across the site.

Wait for Cache Refresh

Depending on the size of your site, it may take several minutes for the navigation changes to appear on the published site. Larger sites may take longer to update due to cache propagation.

7. Switch Back to Column View

Once reordering is complete, you can switch back to Column View using the same view toggle in the upper-right corner of My Sites. After confirming the order:

• Switch the view mode back to Column View (icon in top-right corner).
• This view helps you navigate and verify the new structure more easily.