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Creating a navigation form

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Creating a navigation form

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- You might have noticed that our navigation pane, over here on the left side of your screen, is growing at a steady rate. Pretty soon, we're going to have lots of objects and remembering exactly which one you need to use, for a particular task, might start to become more difficult. We can help users get around our database, and easily move from task to task, by organizing the relevant forms into a single tab's interface, called a navigation form. We can create a navigation form, by going up to the create tab of the ribbon, and in the forms section, we'll find the navigation option. It's a drop-down list and when I open it up, you'll see I have different options in here, for how I want the tabs to be arranged. I can either choose from a horizontal tab across the top, or vertical tabs on the left, or vertical tabs on the right, and then I also have options for two levels of tabs across the top, on the left end top, and on the right end top. I'm going to stick with just a single…

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