Grouping apps in the side panel

post by Kelvin_Kautzer13 on Jan 21, 2025

is there a way to batch apps in one folder on the side panel? So that I dont have as many apps on the side. Would be cool to create categories of apps with a drop down you can open and close

post by allene on Jan 22, 2025

Currently, you cannot batch apps into folders on the sidebar.

However, this is an open feature request we’ve received and I’ve added your +1 🙂

post by AYKO_Support on Mar 18, 2025

We would really like this too, as we have hundreds of apps on the left hand side

post by adam on Mar 18, 2025

Thanks for the feedback! What groups would you form on the sidebar if you had this feature?

post by Kyle_Pearson on Mar 19, 2025

I’ll also boost this feedback myself, I left this same feedback in Slack at the end of February:

"Any possibility of creating a “roll up” view of the dashboard menu where we can group apps under a category/header?

Our use case - we provide account and tax services. Some embedded elements relate to one category or the other and for some of our clients the left menu can get pretty long at a glance and start to look a bit disorganized. Would love to be able to create my own category headers and then be able to nest the family of apps related to that category (e.g. “Bookkeeping”) under separate topical carrot menu drop downs so they’re better “organized” from the client facing perspective"

I see this feature becoming a pretty significant necessity in the near future for us!

post by John_Bloomfield on Mar 31, 2025

This would be great.

I’d like it kept simple though so we can just add a menu item and then nest whatever we want underneath it - for example we use a forms system not directly supported so we would make embeds which would fine then group and order them under a menu item we have created ourselves.

post by AYKO_Support on Jul 1, 2025

Is there any news on this?

We would LOVE (and need) to be able to have an app icon on the left hand-side like “SEO” and then a client can see all their SEO apps under it

We have some clients with many services and without any foldering/nesting this becomes too hard to manage.

post by brittany on Jul 1, 2025

Thank you for following up on this! We’ve heard this feedback from many of our users and do have plans to address it on our roadmap in the future. While I don’t have an exact timeline on implementation, I’ve made sure to include this context for our product team so that we can appropriately prioritize. We will be sure to let you know once this is shipped!

post by Kyle_Pearson on Jul 6, 2025

Re-adding my affirmative to this feature request, same feedback as everyone else - our sidebar gets easily overloaded, would love to be able to nest by category/subject header!

post by Veronique_Cadet on Jul 7, 2025

Hi @Kyle_Pearson Thank you for the feedback! I’ve sent your request as a plus one for this feature request! Thanks! 😃

post by AYKO_Support on Jul 8, 2025

Weekly our management and marketing team ask us about having folders or some sort of nesting in the portal.

We have clients who are struggling to use the portal now due to the amount of apps/services/reports they have.

We would want to nest with different categories like:

SEO

• SEO Report
• SEO Roadmap
• X
• Y
• Z

post by AYKO_Support on Jul 8, 2025

See image to see the challenge we face:

post by Veronique_Cadet on Jul 9, 2025

HI @AYKO_Support! Thanks for reaching back out! I’m sorry to hear that not being able to nest apps has put you in a position where you feel limited. I’ve gone ahead and shared this feedback with our product team so they’re aware of how important this is. While I can’t guarantee a timeline for implementation, please know that it’s on our radar and I’ll be sure to keep you updated if anything changes. Thanks! 🙂

post by John_Bloomfield on Jul 18, 2025

I have to agree with you here.

I feel really tied by what I can add because it could so easily become a mess.

post by brittany on Jul 21, 2025

Hi @John_Bloomfield – thank you so much for your candor here. It’s feedback like this that helps us prioritize updates with real impact. We hear you on the importance of this feature and are planning on addressing this soon. I don’t have a specific date to give you at this time, but we have this slated for the end of Q4.

post by AYKO_Support on Jan 16

We would really love this or may have to look elsewhere, we need to be able to folder/group apps.

post by marlon on Jan 16

Excited to let you & others know that this project is in-progress and in the final stages. This should go out by mid February latest!

post by AYKO_Support on Feb 16

Hi Marlon

Many thanks for the update, is this still set to come out soon?

post by marlon on Feb 16

Yes, beta access planned for Wednesday!

post by marlon on Feb 18

The day has come, this feature is out in beta. It looks like this: https://x.com/lachynicolson/status/2023882074701365578

If you’re in Launchpad, our beta group, you can click on ‘App Library’ in the left sidebar and set up your folders. If you’re not in our beta program, make sure you’re in a paid plan and send a message to support@assembly.com and we can get you added today! Alternatively, if you wait until mid March, this feature will roll out to GA for everyone (along with many other new things)

post by AYKO_Support on Feb 18

Hi Marlon!

Thanks so much, we’ve been trying this out and it’s greatly helped us already. We will go through this fully and provide any beta feedback.

post by John_Bloomfield on Mar 19

Any news on when this will rollout to non-beta testers?

post by vivienne on Mar 19

You’re in luck @John_Bloomfield … 👀 (this won’t be announced until tomorrow AM)

post by vivienne on Mar 20

Excited to share with @Kelvin_Kautzer13 and others that this feature is now live with Assembly 2.0!