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Breadcrumb menus are great.
They tell the user a lot about where they are within a solutions hierarchy.
They also provide a really quick and easy way to navigate up/down that hierarchy if needed.
In the FileMaker world, people have been making breadcrumb menus in various forms for a while, the most common implementation is that of a repeating fields, button bars, or in the case of vertical menus, a portal.
And while all of these methods are workable, they tend to have limitations when it comes to 2 aspects - the visual quality of the menu, and the ability to customise and extend the menu.
So what do we mean by these?
We’ll start off by giving an example of a breadcrumb menu built using a button bar, discuss some of its limitations, and then present our alternative implementation using a tab control object.
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