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Navigation Part 1

Moving Among Functions

SPAR's homepage displays a series of 9 tabs. They represent the different functions, services, and links in SPAR. The first five modules of this tutorial focuses on the first 4 tabs:

The Nursery module focuses on the Admin tab:

When you click on any of these tabs you see a dropdown menu of choices. It's helpful to think of these main tabs in SPAR's hompage as offering you a series of forms. When you select one of these forms, you see a set of fields in the top half of the screen and on the bottom half many display results once the form is completed. See the Search module demos for examples.

If you think you selected the wrong form, click on the main tab you want and select another choice from the dropdown list.

Returning Home

If you are ever lost within SPAR, you can return to the SPAR Homepage by clicking on the words 'Application Home'. These words will always appear in the top left of the application regardless of which SPAR window you have displayed.

If you use the Internet regularly, you might be tempted to use your browser's back arrow button and forward arrow button to navigate in SPAR. Avoid using any of the browser buttons in SPAR. Either the buttons won't do anything, or in the case of the Refresh button, it will take you back to the Homepage. (Should this happen, retrace your steps by clicking on the same form. Your data may still be there.)

So what happens when you're in a form?
Click Forward (Continue) to find out.