# Left Sidebar Missing in Forest Admin Panel; Only Activity Page Visible

**URL:** <https://community.forestadmin.com/t/left-sidebar-missing-in-forest-admin-panel-only-activity-page-visible/7178>\
**Category:** Help me!\
**Created:** [April 15, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/left-sidebar-missing-in-forest-admin-panel-only-activity-page-visible/7178 "2024-04-15T16:56:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kun\_Xiao](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/kun_xiao/32/6749_2.png) [@Kun\_Xiao](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Kun_Xiao)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/left-sidebar-missing-in-forest-admin-panel-only-activity-page-visible/7178/1 "2024-04-15T16:56:12Z")

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I am experiencing an issue with my Forest Admin panel where the left sidebar, which typically includes navigation options, is completely missing. Currently, only the activity page is visible on the right side of the screen. Here are the specifics of my situation:

## Context

- Project name: **bluebot-customer-support-mangement**
- Team name: **bluebot**
- Environment name: **staging and development**
- Agent technology: **nodejs**
- Agent (forest package) name & version: 1.13.1
- Database type: postgreSQL
- Recent changes made on your end if any: used forest CLI to push the changes

This is the screenshot of the dashboard without edit mode

 ![Screenshot 2024-04-15 at 9.01.55 PM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/7/719be607f59a0aa353ede5f0a2c139b9277f6baf.png)

And this is the screenshot of the dashboard with edit mode

 ![Screenshot 2024-04-15 at 9.03.16 PM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/6/64f95b7efd08400dec9a92d301b9011c60da473e.png)

Notes:

We have tried taking the following steps but nothing changes:

- Removed and generated `.forestadmin-schema.json` using `npm start`
- Rolled back the current backend version, using `forest branch <new branch>` and `forest push`, to the most recent one before the left sidebar was missing

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**Author:** ![morganperre](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/morganperre/32/1296_2.png) [@morganperre](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/morganperre)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 7:31am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/left-sidebar-missing-in-forest-admin-panel-only-activity-page-visible/7178/2 "2024-04-16T07:31:21Z")

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Hello @Kun_Xiao,

> [@Kun\_Xiao](#):
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> I am experiencing an issue with my Forest Admin panel where the left sidebar, which typically includes navigation options, is completely missing. Currently, only the activity page is visible on the right side of the screen. Here are the specifics of my situation:

I double checked on my side and indeed the change has been made `13/04/2024 00:57:50 (UTC+1)` but this shouldn’t be possible… We gonna make a manual intervention to put the sections back. 🙏  
I will let you know once done.

> [@Kun\_Xiao](#):
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> Recent changes made on your end if any: used forest CLI to push the changes

We are trying to understand what cause the issue in first place. Did you push changes from a development environment? If yes which one?

Kind regards,  
Morgan

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**Author:** ![morganperre](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/morganperre/32/1296_2.png) [@morganperre](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/morganperre)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 8:04am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/left-sidebar-missing-in-forest-admin-panel-only-activity-page-visible/7178/3 "2024-04-16T08:04:13Z")

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Hey again @Kun_Xiao,

We have done the manual intervention. Your sections should be back.

We are gonna make a fix to prevent such thing to happen in the future.

Kind regards,  
Morgan

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**Author:** ![Kun\_Xiao](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/kun_xiao/32/6749_2.png) [@Kun\_Xiao](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Kun_Xiao)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/left-sidebar-missing-in-forest-admin-panel-only-activity-page-visible/7178/4 "2024-04-16T18:14:11Z")

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Hey Morgan,

Thank you for fixing the dashboard! The staging environment is recovered, but the local development environment is not. Would you please be able to recover my local development environment to the same dashboard version as my staging environment?

Here are the specifics of my local development environment:

**Agent Version: 1.13.1**  
**Name of the Environment: Development | michaelxiao**

My last question is how we could roll back the current version of my forest admin dashboard to the previous ones if the same situation happened again?

Edited:

I tried recreating the local development environment, and it worked after recreating the new branch.

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**Author:** ![morganperre](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/morganperre/32/1296_2.png) [@morganperre](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/morganperre)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/left-sidebar-missing-in-forest-admin-panel-only-activity-page-visible/7178/5 "2024-04-17T14:11:51Z")

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Hello again @Kun_Xiao,

> [@Kun\_Xiao](#):
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> Would you please be able to recover my local development environment to the same dashboard version as my staging environment?

It should be good too. Oh I just saw your edit comment.

> [@Kun\_Xiao](#):
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> My last question is how we could roll back the current version of my forest admin dashboard to the previous ones if the same situation happened again?

Well internally we are gonna add some security and validation to ensure this cannot happen again. 🙏

Kind regards,  
Morgan

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**Author:** ![anon62739609](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@anon62739609](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon62739609)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/left-sidebar-missing-in-forest-admin-panel-only-activity-page-visible/7178/6 "2024-04-26T14:27:26Z")

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We’ve added security on our side to prevent you from having this issue again 😉
