About ViewApp hierarchical navigation

When a ViewApp's navigation model is organized as a multi-level hierarchy of navigation items, users can make an action by mouse or touch to show content from another item or another piece of content in the navigation model.

A layout can be configured with panes associated to each level in the hierarchy. Panes can be configured to support two types of hierarchical navigation behaviors:

• The user can make an action that navigates to the next item at the same level of the hierarchy and show content from that item.

• The user can make an action that navigates to the next piece of content within a multi-content pane.

Based on a pane property, tabs appear on the inner border of a pane that indicates hierarchical navigation is supported. When the user clicks or taps on a tab, the hierarchical navigation behavior is executed.

The following screen capture shows the behavior of hierarchical navigation. The current selected item is Mixing, which is a sibling item to Storage in the hierarchy. Users can show the content from these two sibling items by selecting the respective items shown in the navigation model. The Mixing navigation item is the parent of four child items.

The navigation breadcrumb shown above the navigation tree shows the selected Mixing item and its four child items with the vertical hierarchy represented as horizontal segments.