In 2/3 of my solutions i use button bars in the top navigation element so users can switch to different list views easily. On my main solution we have 9 modules so that's 9 different sets of button bars which are horrible to update if you need to add a new list layout to it.
Also as they are expanding is seems they are taking up too much space in the top element and will become unreadable on smaller screens.
Does anybody know of an effective method of navigation that I could use?
I've started to refresh the solution and want it to be - simple and efficient. (Also every layout to fit onto a iPad)
Hi globe11123,
If you have Version 16 or 17, I suggest you consider using a Card Window for your primary navigation. Martha Zink from Soliant provided a simple demo soon after V 16 was released.
Put a button in the window for each module of your solution, give each a script parameter, then your navigation script is a series of If Else steps that use the script parameter to go to the module's initial layout, or could be another Card Window.
Once you've made the layout for your first Card Window, you'll soon discover how easy it becomes to reuse it throughout your solution. Update it once and that update is available wherever else it is used, so long as you also update the If-Else script.
For me it made V16 a must-have upgrade and I'd never go back to the chore of trying to revise a Button Bar that was nowhere nearly as useful.
Cheers,
John