Learning Claris FileMaker

Central navigation is an overarching menu (or button/tab) system where you can go from anywhere to anywhere within software, regardless of context.

Another kind of navigation is specialized – where you link directly to a specific element in your solution.

This post explores a technique for building a data-driven, hierarchical navigation menu that will level up (think Mario one up mushroom… ding!) your apps in ways that are both intuitive for users, and quite slick for us FileMaker nerds.

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I've always been intrigued with how to mimic a web browser's back and forward buttons... as have many other developers.

While I don't usually include them in a professional solution, I do find the exercise of creating an airtight historical navigation solution challenging.

I prefer well designed navigation over history buttons.

Therefore, I present this article as a brain teaser and not necessarily as a recommended solution.

But, I'll let you make the decision.

I'll go into why I don't think history navigation works, as well as the best ways to overcome shortcomings so you can make an educated decision for yourself.