Navigator
Walks a Tenant's records and their relations, column by column. Where Explorer lays Entities side by side and Analysis counts them, Navigator follows one record to the records it is related to.
For: Member, Tenant administrator
Walk from a record
- Choose a type in Types. Its records open in the next column, with how many there are.
- Choose a record. The next column lists the records it is related to, in groups: each group is headed by the relation as it reads from this record, the type of the records in it, and their number.
- Choose a related record to walk on. Each record you choose opens a column of its own relations, of whatever types they are.
- Go back by the path above the columns (Path): each part returns to its column. All types goes back to the beginning.
The path is the way you came, not a place a record lives in: the same record can be reached by many ways, and it is one record whichever way you reach it.
The parts of this screen
The walk
- What's on this screenThe types, a row, the way back, the details, and what a number beside a heading counts.
- With the keyboardThe arrows, Enter, Tab, typing to a row, and the keys that open a menu.
Find and narrow
- Find a recordSearching every type by name or code, opening a record from what was found, and many types.
- Narrow and order a columnA column's find box, its sort, its menu, folding it, and a row's menu.
Change records
- Change a recordEditing in the record's panel, a conflict, leaving a changed form, and a refused save.
- Add a recordAdd record at the foot of a type's list, and where it is not offered.
- Relate recordsAdd relation: an existing record from the list, or a new one in two named steps; Unlink and Replace.
- Delete and restoreDelete from the panel, the path cut where the record stood, Show deleted records, history.
Keep and join
- Views and pinsSaving a column as a view, opening, renaming and deleting it; pinning a type to the top.
- Explorer and AnalysisOpen in Explorer, Analyse, Navigate from here, and Navigator in an application.
The screen
- Long paths, small screens, the whole screenWhat a long path folds away, one column at a time on a phone, and filling the screen.
- What is kept for youHow the columns look and the path you were last on — and what is never kept.
When the screen says something
- What the screen says, and whyEach sentence Navigator shows when a list is empty, a read is refused or a path is cut.