Standard versus console app navigation
Key Takeaway
Standard navigation shows one record at a time. Console navigation lets users open many records, plus their related records, as tabs on a single screen.
Every Lightning app uses either standard navigation or console navigation, and that choice controls how users open and move between records. Console navigation helps people who work quickly across several records.
How records open in each type of app
In an app with standard navigation (a standard app), a user opens a single record at a time. In an app with console navigation (a Lightning console app), a user can open multiple records at once, as tabs on a single screen.
A Lightning console app opens records in workspace tabs. When a user opens a related record from inside a workspace tab, the related record opens in a subtab under the original record.
From the tab menu, users can:
- refresh a tab
- pin a tab
- customize a tab
- close a tab