Navigation functions
Navigation functions transition users from their current screen to another screen or launcher screen.
| Use navigation functions to transition from your current screen to another screen or launcher screen. For example, opening a record from a list, or moving from an employee user profile screen to a manager user profile screen. Navigation functions use the Global or Record context. | Image omitted: navigation-example.png A navigation function configured to navigate from a form field to a user record. |
Navigation function contexts
Global Context
Use global context navigation functions in situation where the navigation does not depend on information from a record. For example, to navigate to a specific screen or launcher screen, you can use a global context navigation function. For examples of global context navigation configuration, see:
Use record context navigation functions in situations where the navigation depends on information from a record. For example, you want to navigate from the Assigned to field in an incident record to the assignee's user record. In this case, you would use a record context navigation.