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About the Thread Bar

The thread bar appears immediately below the application toolbar, and helps you keep track of your navigational path when you use field hyperlinks to drill across to a view on another screen. Figure 3 shows an example of the thread bar.

When you drill across screens by using field hyperlinks, you remain in the same thread. Consequently, you might navigate to a new screen and view, but you do not see all the records available in that screen and view. For example, in the thread bar in Figure 3, you see only the activities associated with the Gregory contact and the Johnson & Sloan account. If you want to see every account that you can access, then you must click the current screen tab.

You can return to a previous point in the path by clicking the corresponding hyperlink on the thread bar. However, if you navigate to another screen using a screen tab or the Site Map, then the thread bar resets and begins tracking your new path.

Figure 3. Example of the Thread Bar