Unified navigation

Preview

This feature is in Public Preview.

This article describes the new unified navigation experience, which reduces clicks and context switches required to complete tasks across product areas. For the legacy navigation experience, see Navigate the workspace.

Onboarding checklists are no longer available in unified navigation.

Opt in to unified navigation

To opt in to unified navigation, do the following:

  1. In the sidebar of your workspace, click Enable New UI.

  2. In the Try the new navigation UI dialog, click Enable.

Homepage

The following sections of the workspace homepage provide shortcuts to common tasks and workspace objects to help you onboard to and navigate the Databricks Lakehouse:

Get started

This section provides shortcuts to the following common tasks across product areas:

  • Import data using the upload data UI

  • Create a notebook

  • Create a query

  • Configure an AutoML experiment

Note

The tiles that display on your homepage depend on your assigned entitlements.

Recents

This section displays your recently viewed workspace objects across product areas, including files, notebooks, experiments, queries, dashboards, and alerts.

You can also access recents from the sidebar and from the search bar.

Popular

This section displays objects with the most user interactions in the last 30 days across product areas, including files, notebooks, experiments, queries, dashboards, and alerts.

+ New menu

Click + New to complete the following tasks:

  • Create workspace objects such as notebooks, queries, repos, dashboards, alerts, jobs, experiments, models, and serving endpoints

  • Create compute resources such as clusters, SQL warehouses, and ML endpoints

  • Upload CSV or TSV files to Delta Lake using the upload data UI or load data from various data sources using the add data UI

Previous UI

Old navigation create menu

New UI

New navigation create menu

Full-page workspace browser

The workspace browser now offers a full-page experience with a contextual browser so you can browse workspace content without leaving your notebook.

Notebook contextual browser

Search

Use the top bar to search for workspace objects such as notebooks, queries, dashboards, alerts, files, folders, libraries, tables registered in Unity Catalog, jobs, and repos in a single place. You can also access recently viewed objects in the search bar.

Workspace admin and user settings

Workspace admin and workspace user settings are unified across product areas. SQL settings are combined with general settings to create a unified experience for admin and non-admin users.

All workspace admin settings are now accessed from Admin Settings, including the following tabs:

  • SQL settings

  • External data sources

  • SQL warehouse settings

All workspace user settings are now accessed from User Settings, including the following tabs:

  • The Password tab is now the Account & Password tab.

  • The Query snippets tab is visible to users with the Databricks SQL access entitlement.

Provide feedback about unified navigation

To provide feedback about the unified navigation experience, in the sidebar, click Provide feedback.