WaveMaker provides navigation calls for navigating around within an application. Navigation calls are client-side components of the type wm.NavigationCall
. They may feel like service calls, but they do not call the server. Not every application navigation requires the use of a navigation call. Tab layers, in which the user selects the visual tab of the layer they want, are the most notable example. Navigation calls are configured by their properties to specify both the type of navigation and the specific instances involved. Navigation calls can be used for a variety of things, from showing a toast message to replacing the home page outright. To load a page into a page container, for example, select gotoPageContainerPage
for the operation of the navigation call and set the pageName
and pageContainer
properties.
Shown in the previous screenshot is navigationCallMobileSite from the CustpurchaseNavigation
example project. The application provides a link...