![]() ![]() The next time you run the “Load Nav” script, or just close and open the file again, your FileMaker navigation will update through your entire solution. That also means it is easy to change your navigation by simply rearranging the order of layouts. If there are no values to display on the second or third tier, that button bar is hidden. Similarly, selecting “Contacts” on the second tier will show “Info” “One” and “Two” on the third tier. Company on the first tier has “Main,” “Details,” and Contacts” that appear on the second tier. In the above list, we have “Home”, “Company” and “Prefs” on the first tier, and the second tier would be dynamic, based on the first tier we have selected. For example, “Company_Contacts_Info” is a list with three values delimited with an underscore. If we consider each individual value as having a list of its own, this could be considered a multi-dimensional array. This is a straightforward list of values, which is easy to understand. If you think of the layout names as data, where we define a delimiter to separate the layouts, we can structure a naming convention that works with the navigation framework to build out the navigation scheme. Clicking on one of the top tier buttons takes you to the second tier and so on. Therefore, the minimum version of FileMaker for this technique is at least 14. This solution has three button bars, first introduced in FileMaker 14, that are stacked on top of one another. All layouts that use a common Theme will reflect updates across the entire file when you update the Theme. You can also utilize Themes and Styles with current versions of FileMaker, allowing you to easily change the look and feel of your standardized navigation in all layouts that use the same theme. The newest iteration supports three tiers of navigation and uses only native FileMaker objects. That original version was done some 10-plus years ago and was due for an update using modern techniques. That solution had its drawbacks, notably a “clicking” sound on Windows that happens when a web viewer is loading. An earlier version I created used a web viewer to display navigation but only supported two tiers. This has been something that has been in the back of my mind for a long time. ![]()
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