> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.hazel.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Sections and tabs

> Top-level sections, the tabs inside them, and how to add, order and name each one.

You are laying out the destinations a client will click through, so start with the two levels a layout gives you: a **Section** becomes an entry in the plan's left navigation, and a **Tab** sits inside a section.

Blocks, the paragraphs, charts, tables and figure rows a plan is made of, sit in either one. Nothing nests deeper: a design that seems to want a third level wants another section.

Two blocks hold other blocks, **Tab group** and **Priority list**; a **Tab group** draws a real row of chips you can click between. The outline lists sections and tabs, never blocks, so look inside a container on the canvas.

## The default spine

Out of the box, a plan runs five sections in this order.

| Section           | What it holds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Summary**       | The opening narrative, the chance-of-success gauge, and four headline figures.                                                                                                                                                                               |
| **Today**         | Net worth and the balance sheet, with account-level detail underneath.                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| **Goals**         | One card per goal, with its funding status and progress toward the target.                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| **Getting there** | The working topics as a row of tabs: **Cash flow**, **Retirement** and **Insurance** to begin with. **Investments** and **Estate plan** are [modules](/guides/financial-planning/plan-design/modules) you add when you want them. Most of a plan lives here. |
| **Decisions**     | What Hazel would do first, and the log of what was decided.                                                                                                                                                                                                  |

Reorder them if your firm tells the story differently.

**Getting there** carries no blocks of its own by default, so Hazel writes whatever sits above the tab bar. A section can hold both: its own blocks lead, then the tabs.

## Adding a section or a tab

Structure is added in the layout editor, which opens from **Design layout** on the **Plan layout** card.

**A top-level section.** You build this one by hand: open the **Modules** tab in the left rail, expand **Building blocks** at the foot of the list (it starts closed), and drag **Section** from the **Structure** group onto the canvas. It arrives titled "New section", set to **Always**. No module makes a top-level section: the five section-shaped modules each add a tab to **Getting there** instead, and their cards wear a **Tab** badge.

**A tab.** Drag **Tab** from the same shelf into the section that should hold it, or add one of those five modules and let it bring its own tab and blocks. A tab that arrives with a module starts on **When it applies**; one you drag in starts on **Always**.

An empty tab works: give it a heading and **Instructions to Hazel**, and Hazel composes that tab from them.

## Ordering

Reorder from the **Outline** tab in the left rail. Hover a row and two arrows appear, moving it up or down among its siblings. Moving a block to a different parent is a drag on the canvas.

## Naming

Section and tab names are client-facing, so name them the way you would say them out loud. "Cash flow" beats "Cash flow and budgeting analysis."

Select a section and the **Editor** panel on the right offers:

* **Heading.** The words above the section's content.
* **Subtitle.** One optional line under the heading.
* **Nav label**, under **Advanced.** A shorter label for the left navigation. Hazel's own first section uses it: "Executive summary" above the content, **Summary** in the navigation.

A tab's **Heading** names the tab and heads its content. If the right name runs long, keep it and add a **Short tab name** under **Advanced**: the full heading leads the content, the short one rides the tab.

## Headings inside a section

You name the section, and Hazel writes the headings on the blocks inside it unless you pin them one at a time. Pin them where your firm has standardized. See [Block settings](/guides/financial-planning/plan-design/block-settings).

## A worked example

Say your firm presents tax planning as its own destination rather than a tab. Drag in a **Section**, set its **Heading** to "Tax planning", and move it after **Getting there**. Add **Roth conversion**, plus **RMD calculation** if you serve retirees: both land in the Retirement tab, so open that tab on the canvas and drag each block across. Put a **Narrative** block ahead of the schedules, then set the section's **When it shows up** to **Always** if it belongs in every deliverable.

## If a section you designed is missing from a plan

* **The design was never saved.** The save button still reads **Save changes**.
* **The plan predates the change.** A design shapes the plans built from now on.
* **The section is set to When it applies**, and this household's facts did not call for it. Switch it to **Always** if it belongs everywhere.
* **Strictness is doing what you asked.** **Flexible**, where a new firm starts, treats your design as a starting point. See [Strictness](/guides/financial-planning/settings/personas/strictness).
* **You edited a different design.** A plan is built from the base template or from the persona Hazel matched the household to, and each carries its own layout. See [Inheritance](/guides/financial-planning/settings/personas/inheritance).

## Where to go next

* [Modules](/guides/financial-planning/plan-design/modules): what to put in a section.
* [Block settings](/guides/financial-planning/plan-design/block-settings): headings, instructions, and visibility.
* [Using the layout editor](/guides/financial-planning/plan-design/using-the-editor): the rest of the mechanics.
* [Module reference](/guides/financial-planning/plan-design/module-reference): all nineteen modules and where each lands.
