Best way of placing panels on the side of the scene

Unity Engine
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I have a scene with a canvas (Screen Space Overlay) and would like to design it like this:

A panel with a button on it that act as the trigger for sliding the panel in and out of the scene. I use animation and that works OK. However, my question is if this is the best way of doing this or is there an other and better way?

I have some challenges with the anchor points, different display sizes etc. I have also experimented with a second canvas, which was bigger than the main one, but did not get that to work.

Cheers

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You are pretty limited in terms of anchoring outside the canvas but you can just offset its potion. Just make sure you have a Canvas Scaler and you should be fine.