Application Navigators do not show configured Links when duplicated
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Summary
Some Application Navigator links do not appear in the Application Navigator menu, despited not being marked as hidden.
Cause
When there are multiple links using the same URL, Confluence will avoid showing any link with a duplicated URL.
The order set in the Application Navigator menu prevails, so only the link in the highest position will be show in the Application Navigator menu.
Solution
This is an expected behaviour.
For example, consider the following situation where Link 03 and Link 04 point to an identical URL https://www.example03.com:
As they are duplicated, the Application Navigator menu will not show Link 04 as it's redundant and in a lower position:
Confluence will take into consideration that if the links are hidden or not in the Application Navigator menu. If a URL is duplicated, it will show the first link not hidden from the list.
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