Pages & Navigation

IronFlock boards are not limited to a single screen. You can create multiple pages and move smoothly between them using navigation widgets — giving your users simple, clickable ways to jump from page to page.

How Navigation Works

Navigation is powered by routes. A route is the part of the URL after .../home/ and tells IronFlock which page to display.

• Add a new page → a new route is created for it.
• A navigation widget changes the route in the address bar → IronFlock instantly shows the linked page.

Navigation Widget Types

There are three navigation widgets to choose from:

• Side Navigation — a vertical sidebar menu, ideal for top-level sections. Can show static items or generate items dynamically from your data (e.g. one entry per machine in your project).
• Tab Bar — a horizontal tab bar for switching between sub-views within a page.
• Navigation Button — a single button that links to a specific page.

Relative vs. Absolute Routes

Navigation widgets support two styles of routing:

• Absolute routes start with a slash (e.g. /settings/device1) and always navigate to exactly that route.
• Relative routes have no leading slash (e.g. device2/profile) and replace the last segment of the current route.

Example: If you are on /settings/device1 and navigate to device2/profile, the new route becomes /settings/device2/profile.

Note: /settings and /settings/ are not the same:

• From /settings, navigating to device1 results in /device1
• From /settings/, navigating to device1 results in /settings/device1

Dynamic Routing

Instead of creating a separate page for every device in your project, you can use a wildcard route with *.

Example: Create a page at /assets/*. Any route like /assets/device1, /assets/device2, or /assets/anything will display that single page.

Inside the page, widgets can read route segments to filter their data automatically. If the URL is /assets/device1, the segments are:

• Segment 1 → assets
• Segment 2 → device1

Configure a widget to filter by segment 2 and it will automatically show data for whichever device is in the URL. Navigate to /assets/device2 and the same page adapts and shows device2’s data — no duplicate pages needed.

With navigation widgets and dynamic routing your board becomes modular and project-aware. Whether you have 5 devices or 5,000, you can navigate and manage them all without clutter or complexity.