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By Daniel Wood, 4 October 2018
Introduction
Breadcrumb menus are great. They tell the user a lot about where they are within a solutions hierarchy. They also provide a really quick and easy way to navigate up/down that hierarchy if needed. In the FileMaker world, people have been making breadcrumb menus in various forms for a while, the most common implementation is that of a repeating fields, button bars, or in the case of vertical menus, a portal.
And while all of these methods are workable, they tend to have limitations when it comes to 2 aspects - the visual quality of the menu, and the ability to customise and extend the menu. So what do we mean by these? We’ll start off by giving an example of a breadcrumb menu built using a button bar, discuss some of its limitations, and then present our alternative implementation using a tab control object.
Example file time!
Rather than wait til the end to check out the demo, we strongly recommend you download and explore the example file as you read. This will help you follow along with the content of the article and help you to understand what we are talking about.
A typical breadcrumb menu
Here is an example of a standard breadcrumb menu. This is a location based menu, as the items in the menu are locations within the solution the user can navigate to.
The user currently resides at the right-most location in the menu, and as you scan to the left you can work your way back up the navigation hierarchy all the way to home screen. These navigation elements are clickable, so the user is free to traverse back up the hierarchy to any point they wish.
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Many peoples first instinct would be to use a button bar to design and build a breadcrumb menu. It has a number of properties that suit a breadcrumb menu:
- Multiple segments, each could be a step in the hierarchy
- Clickable, as each segment is essentially a button
- You can calculate the text to appear in each segment.
But here’s the problem. Button bars are of a fixed width, and the segments within the button bar are all proportional in width to the overall width of the bar itself. So if you have a 100pt wide button bar, with 10 segments, then each segment will be 10 pts wide. If you extend the width of the bar to 200pts, then each segment grows to 20pts in width. You have no control over the width of each individual segment.
So what does this mean for us in real terms?
Here is a crack at building a breadcrumb menu with a button bar. The issue we have is that each segment has a variable amount of text, yet we can only have a single width per segment. Add to this the fact that typical breadcrumb menus have a divider between each element, and you end up with a pretty average looking menu.
This is what it looks like in layout mode, to further illustrate whats going on.
Now, we have seen people come up with attempts to work around this fixed width segment issue. Some involve creating button bar segments based on calculations, where the text inside each segment is padded with spaces to make it a certain width, while others involve starting off with hundreds of small segments, and programmatically removing certain segments and padding others. The simple fact is these are all complex and a real pain to work with, and you still do not achieve a really beautiful result.
What about a tab control?
What’s that, I hear you ask? A tab control? Surely a tab is the last object you’d think of to build a breadcrumb menu right? Well maybe, but the fact is tab controls are the perfect layout object for building them (short of an actual breadcrumb menu layout object!).
The reason why tab controls are so great for this, is the simple fact that the width of each tab control name is variable in width. This means it doesn’t matter how much or how little text goes into each tab name, they won’t all end up the same width.
This is a tab control, designed to look like a breadcrumb menu. Looks pretty nice doesn’t it. Notice how all of the spacing between the dividers and the items are all consistent. So how is this done?
Here is the same tab control object highlighted in layout mode. The height of the overall object has been reduced such that there is actually no content space, it’s just the height of the tab names themselves. We aren’t going to be using this object for placing other objects in, we are only concerned with the names.
Let’s look at the tab control setup next.
Interesting! What we can see here is that the odd positions in the tab control are given the names of the items in the menu. Whilst the even positions are used for dividers. This is a key concept in our technique for building the menu - odd spaces are for items, even spaces are for separators.
The above setup is kind of useless in an actual solution because it is so hard-coded. Ideally you want the menu to be dynamic, and have elements add/remove as you traverse up/down the navigation hierarchy of your solution, but at this point we’re simply showing you the building blocks for how we structure the object.
We use the “Label width + Margin of” option for tab width, this allows tabs to grow as more text is added, whilst maintaining an even spacing between items and dividers. We are using an ascii character of a right arrow for the divider.
Formatting items
You’ll note that the first three items in the menu are underlined. This is to give visual indication to the user that these are clickable. The right-most element is not underlined, suggesting that is the screen they are current on, and there is no need for them to click that link.
Visual design is achieved through conditional formatting of each individual tab control. In this very basic example, the condition for the first 3 items is simply “true” and we format them to underlined. Again in reality we want to be a bit more dynamic in our conditional formatting, which we’ll cover later.
For a navigation breadcrumb, you may actually wish to simply go with a hard-coded menu such as the one above, and just adjust its display for each layout it appears on, and indeed this may be the easiest implementation. Other implementations may require a more soft-coded dynamic approach.
A simple example
In the example file we start off with a simple wizard example. Here we use a breadcrumb menu to indicate position in a step by step wizard.
This wizard has 5 steps, and the user will work their way through the wizard, and continue to the next section by clicking a button. The menu itself is not clickable, it exists purely as a visual aid to inform the user of their progress in the wizard.
We use the tab control for display of the menu, and we are using a slide-control beneath it for the wizard itself. So, the slide control has 5 panels and each panel is named Wizard_1 through Wizard_5.
The tab control setup is as follows:
Pretty simple stuff. Again odd positions for items, even positions are separators. Because the size of this wizard is known, we only need to add however many tabs are required for each step.
Navigation through the wizard is done by running a script. The script takes as a parameter a direction, be it forward or back. Depending on which direction, it updates the value of a global variable $$WIZARD_POSITION. We use this global variable to help us know which step of the wizard we are on. The script then simply navigates to the next or previous slide panel.
The breadcrumb menu now has to update visually to reflect the users position also. We know the position of the user based on the number in the global variable which will be between 1 and 5. The visual updating is done via conditional formatting, so let's take a look at that:
This is really easy. What we are looking at is the conditional formatting rule for the second position “Your Details”. We’re saying that if the user is at this position, or has gone past this position already, that it should be coloured.
Here the user is on step 4 “Interests”, and so the conditional formatting of items 1 through 4 are evaluated to true, and are coloured bold and green.
For the dividers, they are irrelevant in our example, so we can either always evaluate their conditional formatting to true (and assign them some property, in this case grey colour), or you can leave them without conditional formatting, in which case they will inherit the default formatting of the tab control object.
In this example, you’ll note that the text is black, and the dividers are grey, so we have a difference in formatting of the 2 types of tabs. In the interests of simplicity, we make the default tab text colour black, and we have applied conditional formatting to all dividers, to change them to grey.
Adding action to navigation items
More often than not, you want the user to be allowed to click an item in the navigation menu and run a script accordingly. We can achieve this in tab controls by using the OnPanelSwitch object trigger.
Here is the same wizard, although this time all sections can be navigated to at any point in time.
We start by altering the formatting so that all objects are underlined to begin with, indicating that they can be clicked. The other conditional formatting properties are the same as in the previous example, if the user is on a position, or that position is to the left of where the user currently is, we make it bold and green.
If we apply an OnPanelSwitch trigger to the tab control object, then our script will run regardless of which tab is chosen. An important piece of information we will use in the script is the position of the tab the user has clicked. This can be found by evaluating the first value in the function Get ( TriggerTargetPanel ).
There are 2 possible situations here. Firstly, the user may have clicked a divider. Our script will still run in this instance, so we must handle this situation. Recall all even positions are dividers, so we can check whether the clicked position is even. If it is then we return a FALSE result from the script, and the divider tab is not navigated to.
The only other scenario is the user has clicked on an actual item that they can navigate to. This will be an odd number. We must translate this number into the actual wizard position. We need to do this because of the dividers, they offset the clicked item.
To illustrate this consider clicking on “Immediate Family”. You know that this is the third position in the wizard, but it is actually the 5th position in the tab control. So we need to write a translation between the position chosen and the wizard position. It’s pretty straightforward and simply Ceiling ( $PositionClicked / 2 ). In our example, this would be 5/2 = 2.5, and taking the ceiling of this gives us a wizard position of 3.
Now that we know the wizard position, it’s just a case of setting our location to that value, and going to that sliding panel object, all done !
You can indeed write your own script to cater for any positional click in your menu, regardless of what you are using your menu for.
Abstracting item names into a table
Often times your wizard or menu items will exist in a table as records because you need to customise them, or build different menus for different purposes. In this example we’re going to show that you can still use the breadcrumb menu in this fashion.
Here is a table of records, each for a different section in the breadcrumb menu, and below is the breadcrumb menu. The 2 important bits of information in the table are the name of the item, and its position in the menu.
The beauty of using a tab control really stands out when using an abstracted menu like this. The menu will simply expand to accommodate variable lengths of text. In order for things to work smoothly there are just two things you need to be aware of:
- Make the initial width of the tab object wide enough to cater for a worst case scenario length of menu.
- Add enough tab control objects so that you are sure you have enough menu positions to cater for all the items that may end up in the menu.
Here is the tab control setup of this abstracted menu. Wow things are really getting interesting now! What you see there is a custom function which we have named @BREADCRUMB. It takes 2 parameters. The first is a keyword identifying which records in our wizard setup table to retrieve, and the second is the order number to retrieve. The 5 items in our table are all of type “Abstracted”, and are all numbered 1 through 5.
Here’s the custom function. It’s a simple executeSQL query where we retrieve names of items based on their type and order number, again nothing magical here just standard FileMaker.
The rest of the implementation is no different to our other examples. Conditional formatting for the items, and a script trigger for navigation.
Abstracting the formatting as well as the names
In this last example we show how you can tailor the formatting of individual items in the menu as well as their names. Now you could achieve this with conditional formatting again, but if you want a specific item to have a specific formatting you may wish to abstract this into a table of records to be based on actual items, rather than position in the menu.
This is a very similar example to the one above, with a slight exception that we have an additional field in our table containing an RGB function for the colour we want our item to be.
Here is the tab control setup for this example:
We have added in 9 different tabs here. In fact we add more than required in case more are needed. Because the items are abstracted to a menu, but adding more tabs, we ensure we don’t have to come back and potentially add more in future.
The other interesting thing to notice here is that we no longer are adding dividers into the even positions. It’s all just calls to a custom function called @BREADCRUMB_Formatted. This function is identical in behaviour to the earlier one, but this function does a couple more things
- If the order number passed through is even, it returns the divider character
- If the order number passed through is odd, it obtains the name of that item from corresponding record.
- It also obtains the formatting properties from the record, and applies them to the name, using the Evaluate function.
- It also determines using the wizard position $$WIZARD_POSITION whether to format the item, or whether to not format
So in this case, we are not using conditional formatting to determine whether to format an item or not, it is entirely done within the custom function. The formatting properties we use comes from the record itself.
The end result of this is that because we are only displaying text for items, we have full formatting control over how that looks using the text formatting functions. Here we are using slightly different colours for each item.
Tabs are awesome
The tab control object is just one of those cool objects that just keeps giving. We really love these breadcrumb menus and feel they have a really useful place in solutions. They can also be now made to look really professional and behave just like a breadcrumb menu should as well as being very easy to customise and format.
Example file again!
As with all of our articles we produce we like to provide a detailed example file to go along with it. It’s not enough to just read how something is done, you should be able to see it in action and explore how it works yourself. Please find attached the example file below.
Credits
We'd like to thank Greig Jackson here at Digital Fusion for coming up with this method — nice work!
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"These muscle tissue are essential for higher extremity movement and stability of the shoulder joint," explains John Gallucci Jr., bodily therapist and CEO of JAG Physical Remedy. Constructing energy in any muscle group helps you armor your physique to maneuver extra ably and efficiently, and that very much includes your rhomboids. We have all the details here, together with some rhomboid exercises that’ll make sure you always remember these babies once more. Single-arm machine rows often allow a deeper pull, additional engaging the targeted muscular tissues. I like to do it with a neutral grip, and through my previous couple of sets, I even have accomplished it with a single arm.
For one other variation, I also suggest the standing single arm cable row. This standing cable row variation provides you the choice of working unilaterally–AKA focusing on just one side at a time. As you perform the seated row, you need to use a quantity of secondary muscles as stabilizers.
Moreover, utilizing heavier weights will further problem these muscular tissues resulting in greater features in strength and size over time. When done correctly, they can help to construct energy and muscle mass whereas also providing stability to the core. The barbell row can be certainly one of 5 exercises in our pattern back exercise.
Also known as dead-stop rows, each rep of Pendlay rows starts and ends with the weight resting on the ground. This helps get rid of undesirable momentum and provides your decrease again and grip with a quick relaxation between reps so you should use extra weight. If you’re a beginner, you might need to work your way as a lot as this quantity. The primary goal is to master your method earlier than growing the reps or weights, so start with 2 sets of 6 or eight reps and attempt to fit it into your schedule twice every week before advancing over time. A wider grip shifts the major focus a little extra to sure again muscle tissue more than your arm muscle tissue.
The two D-handles, for example, permits for more motion and range of motion. Nevertheless, you must be affected person while incorporating eccentric-focused coaching into your training. Stick to a rep tempo for no much less than a few weeks to get the most effective results.
Following the identical coaching split for an extended period can result in strength and muscle plateaus. After finishing a set at a heavier weight, immediately reduce the load and perform another set. This method intensifies the workout and induces greater muscle fatigue. There isn't any restriction on which type of deal with to use along with your machine, a V grip is as efficient as a straight bar. Regardless of when you do it, this exercise will assist strengthen and build your underused, underdeveloped posterior deltoids, and it deserves a place in your workout library. The rear deltoid is usually ignored or forgotten and, as such, woefully underdeveloped. That’s a disgrace because good rear delts can add a lot to your higher back shape and dimension and are critical for shoulder health and stability.
Seek new and attention-grabbing methods to perform all your staple movements so that you never get caught ready at the fitness center, by no means grow bored, and at all times continue to grow. Additionally, it could possibly help improve posture by strengthening the stabilizing muscle tissue of the spine. The major focus of a low row should be on partaking your back muscular tissues quite than relying solely on your biceps for power or power.
This straight-back form with abs engaged is one you additionally use in the squat and deadlift workouts. This train is completed to develop strength somewhat than as an cardio rowing train. Even though it is referred to as a row, it's not the traditional motion that you simply would possibly use on the aerobic rowing machine. It is a functional exercise, as many times in the course of the day, you pull items toward your chest.
Throughout an overhand grip, the elbow pushes out from the physique, inflicting the higher back and rear delts to obtain elevated activation. Many lifters use lifting straps for back workout routines to help reduce the involvement of the forearms, even if their grip isn’t a difficulty. You can also carry out a single-arm cable row when you have muscular imbalances back and forth. Many individuals endure from upper-crossed syndrome, which implies their shoulders are rolled ahead main to head and neck issues.
The standing cable row is a compound train that works the upper again muscular tissues of the posterior chain. In addition to performing various actions of the shoulder blades, the rhomboids assist stabilize the whole shoulder girdle. Weakness of the rhomboid muscle tissue can result in winging of the scapula, which can result in shoulder pain and dysfunction. The traps assist stabilize the scapula throughout various higher physique actions and in addition help with appropriate posture. Since the torso is upright and your core remains to be engaged, it’s a lot easier to isolate the again muscles somewhat than working the whole posterior chain. Cable rows are an excellent horizontal row variation for these with lower again injury. Rounding your again in the course of the eccentric part of the carry is the preferred reason for decrease back pain through the seated cable row.
Heaving the load forwards and backwards, utilizing one's entire physique, isn't the manner during which this kind of row is supposed to be carried out. As A Substitute, as soon as the starting position is assumed, there must be little or no movement of the torso. For instance, you presumably can attempt utilizing a sandbag, kettlebells, single kettlebell, weight plate (gripping the edge) or fitness tube.
Start by standing upright, holding two dumbbells in your hands at your sides utilizing a impartial grip with palms dealing with inward. The alternating arm variation adds more complexity to the movement by having you turn arms throughout each repetition. To do this variation, start in an upright position along with your feet shoulder-width apart and maintain onto one deal with with each hands. Your elbow joint will also be slightly bent as you maintain onto the handles with each arms throughout each repetition of this train motion pattern. They also work well for enhancing posture due to their emphasis on scapular retraction (pulling shoulders back).
Strengthening exercises on muscle tissue along the backside of your body (known as posterior chain muscles) are more effective than common exercise in healing decrease again pain. Lean from the waist, but keep your again straight as you'd with a standard seated row. Maintain your neck according to your backbone, and grab the barbells with your palms facing down, arms shoulder-width apart. This steroid hormone will get produced by the adrenal gland in response to emphasize and exercise and supports power metabolism throughout lengthy intervals of exercise. Exercising for too long or doing too many seated rows may find yourself in elevated cortisol ranges, which may lead the body to make use of muscle protein for gas as an alternative of building it. Testosterone and estrogen hormones are also affected by the resistance coaching seated rows provide.
No, the seated row is not harmful if done correctly with proper form. The Seated Row and EMOM (or every-minute-on-the-minute) workout challenge you to finish a sure variety of seated row reps in less than 60 seconds. For instance, you probably can challenge yourself to complete 12 reps in lower than 60 seconds correctly. All you have to dominate the seated row and not using a machine is a resistance band. Sustaining proper type can additionally be a bit simpler than in dumbbell, bent-over rows. Utilizing a large grip will pressure you to make use of an overhand grip and drive your elbows out.
When it involves building a robust, balanced physique, it’s essential to give your back muscle tissue the attention they deserve. The Bent Over Dumbbell Row is a great complementary or various exercise to the Seated Underhand Cable Row. This exercise targets the again muscles, specifically the lats, rhomboids and traps. The exercise is finished by bending over at the waist and utilizing a dumbbell in every hand.
Nestled on the bottom of your shoulder is the teres main, a small however highly effective muscle that acts because the "little helper" to your latissimus dorsi. Each time you rise up from a bent-over place or raise your head to look upwards, these muscle tissue are responsible for spinal extension. They’re important for shoulder and neck alignment, particularly throughout overhead motions. Try workouts just like the Standing Rope Cable Row to interact these muscle tissue.
The dumbbell row offers an extended vary of movement, just like the cable row. Since you’re working with one facet at a time, it is potential to work on any difference between the perimeters. This is a variation of the cable shut grip seated row the place you goal the higher again a bit more, and your biceps a bit less. Sit with your feet flat on the platform and your knees barely bent. Keep your chest up, shoulders back, and down, avoiding any rounding of the shoulders. This optimal place stabilizes your scapula, ensuring correct muscle engagement.
However if you’re just determining tips on how to perform a row, the standing cable row could be a great possibility. The standing cable row could be a really great possibility for novices to the exercise world as a end result of the train itself is designed for lighter weight. There are a nice deal of benefits to adding the standing cable row in to your workout routine.
Putting a rowing-style movement into your exercise combine can present full-body advantages. And, if you're looking to work your arms specifically, you do not even need a rowing machine—thanks to upright rows. The cable row mimics an identical movement pattern because the bent-over row, but flipped 90 levels. Being seated rather than standing takes out potential stress on the low again, permitting us to load on the load and challenge our mid-back muscle tissue even more. Relying on the place you are in your fitness journey, there are two methods you probably can make the most of this transfer to get obtain back positive aspects.
You wish to avoid extreme swinging and as a substitute concentrate on the muscle connection. Jeff Cavaliere is a Physical Therapist, Energy Coach and creator of the ATHLEAN-X Coaching Programs and ATHLEAN-Rx Supplements. His applications produce "next level" achievements in muscle dimension, strength and efficiency for professional athletes and anyone seeking to construct a muscular athletic physique. Completely, Seated Cable Rows are one of the most efficient workouts for constructing a powerful, well-developed back. Management the motion to take care of weight underneath pressure on the muscles throughout the exercise. Weight trainers should prioritize decrease weight with quality reps as an alternative of merely lifting heavier weights.
These exercises will assist maximize muscle stimulation and ensure well-rounded growth of your robust latissimus dorsi muscular tissues. That fact, paired with the technical ease wanted to perform the train, is a purpose it’s turn into a mainstay in so many exercise routines. In this guide, I’m going to show you tips on how to do Seated Cable Rows including essential teaching points, muscles worked and some alternative exercises. If you pressure all sides of your body to be engaged alone, they’ll have to drag their fair proportion every time.
Usually, you perform the seated cable row using a "cable row machine," although you ought to use some other cable pulley machine if there isn’t a cable row machine at your health club. Sometimes also called the "cable seated row," this train effectively trains your whole back (yes, even your lats). Since you carry out it sitting upright, it locations a lot much less stress in your backbone, making it an excellent choice for folks with lower-back issues. The seated cable row develops the muscle tissue of the back and the forearms. It is a superb all-around compound exercise for creating the middle back while providing useful arm work as properly. Since seated rows could be carried out safely at house or in a health club, there are no harmful environmental or situational factors present required to do the exercise. The best danger concerned with seated rows is the danger of again harm because of improper type.
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