Easy navigation around an application is critical to a good user experience.  Simple one or two-click navigation to any part of the system, from any part of the system, is the expectation in a core application.

The Quest Web Parts include a number of very user-friendly components to help users get around:

•      qCascadingMenu
  The Quest Cascading Menu provides a drop-down & cascading interface to allow the user to glide around the options and then and click to link to their chosen topic.  Very easy to use.  Equally as easy to configure, amounting to the editing of a simple and intuitive SharePoint list.  Menu items can be text or graphics or both.  Texts can be "styled".  Links can deliver content to the current or a new browser.
  
  As with the qListView, which can "roll-up" many lists, so the qCascadingMenu web part is able to form a menu from several menu lists, each independently managed.  This enables restricted menus, such as Administrator menus to be included as part of the web part configuration, but because most users will not be able to access the Administrator's menu list, then neither will they be able to see the restricted part of the menu.
  
  
  

•      qPanelMenu
  The Quest Panel Menu, provides the same cascading behaviour as the qCascadingMenu but its design is suited for positioning down a side bar. Configuring the qPanelMenu is very similar to the qCascadingMenu. Together, the qCascadingMenu and the qPanelMenu form the classic top- and side-bar navigation facility found on many web pages.
  
  
  
  

•      qPageRedirector.
  The Quest Page Redirector web part takes the user to a web page depending on their identity.  Configuration is via a SharePoint list in which a user's identity is mapped to a destination URL.  This list is then referenced by the qPageRedirector web part which is placed on a "trigger" page, launched from an Anchor or button, or via JavaScript.  The qPageRedirector is not usually visible to the user.  Its impact is a behavioural change only.  Excellent for providing a common user interface for users with different access rights, ensuring each user type is only able to navigate to permitted pages.
  

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