Nav Pane Groups

[DickyP]

The official documentation for Nav Pane Groups is sparse. Can anyone confirm, what appears to be the case, that an object can only be assigned to one custom group?

 

[isladogs]

Objects can be assigned to multiple groups as shown below:

 

[GPGeorge]

The official documentation for Nav Pane Groups is sparse. Can anyone confirm, what appears to be the case, that an object can only be assigned to one custom group?

Check out the Nav Panes in NW 2, primarily Developer Version. Although most of us don't bother with Nav Pane groups (preferring to try to hide the Nav Pane as much as possible in normal production), we implemented grouping in Nav Panes to illustrate how it could be approached.

If you think of it as a "shortcut" to the object, rather than a physical assignment, you can perhaps better grasp what's going on. Just as you can create multiple desktop shortcuts to an application or folder, you can create multiple groups, each with their own shortcut to an object.

 

[DickyP]

I only ever imagined groups as developer's tool. It was just that they were simplicity itself in 2003 whereas in 2021 the are complex for no obvious reason.