Links in the Sidebar?

[ChrisRackauckas]

I am wondering how one can put links in the sidebar. For example, I currently have documentation pages for tutorials, but would instead like to make the top level Tutorial button link to a Tutorial repository. Is there a way to do that?

[MichaelHatherly]

Do we know whether other language's docsystems support this kind of thing?

My immediate thought is that it would break the "consistency" of the nav menu, i.e. the reader should be able to rely on links in the nav menu to not direct them to a different domain entirely, but just to some page on the current domain. Though if we can come up with some way of clearly differentiating internal/external links then I think it could be fine to allow something like this perhaps.

Alternatively a single page named External Links (or something like that) that lists any extra resources might be the simplest approach for this kind of thing at the moment.

[odow]

Some of the Python packages have managed this, and they have a little icon to indicate it's an external link.

One example: http://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/