Navigation in Sprout Builder



1. Navigate using a thumbnail menu: The thumbnail menu is a navigation bar that is comprised of teeny snapshots of all the pages in your sprout. When you click on the snapshot of a page in the menu bar, you navigate to it. Voila! It is usually best to have at least four pages in your project before you use a thumbnail menu and to have pages simple in design.

2. Navigate using buttons: The button component is another linking device, allowing users to navigate from page to page (internal linking) or to navigate to an outside web site (external linking). The button component can be set to change color as you navigate up, down and hover and it's other properties can be adjusted including size, corners, colors, font, font size, alignment and effects (we have some sweet effects for you to try). Also, I bet you didn't know that buttons can contain tiny images instead of color, such as images of textures (such as brick or wood) or can hold a picture of an object (such as your dog Sprout). They can't be resized so make them very small before you bring them into the asset manager.

3. Record the visits: Buttons or the thumbnail menu can have click tracking enabled as a custom event(see linking and tracking properties section). In the reports section (over the Help button), you will then see a tally of the number of times your button has been pushed - and you thought we didn't care!