In the navigation pane, you can see links to all of the lists, such as Customers, Vendors, or Items, that you work with most.

Instead of crowding your view with links to all of the lists available in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, only those lists that your user role commonly works with are promoted. You can access each of the processes and tasks for your job.

If you need to find something in an area that you usually do not need, you can choose Departments button at the bottom of the navigation pane. On the Departments page, you can drill down to any areas of the application for which you have permissions. Or you can use the Search box at the top right corner of the address bar to look for a specific page, report, or view.

Back and Forward buttons on the controls of Microsoft Dynamics NAV to the left of the Address bar enable you to navigate back and forth through pages that you have previously visited.

The Role Center is like your personal home page in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides a number of different role centers for users with different jobs in a company. Your administrator assigns you a role and can customize the Role Center to ensure that it presents the information you need for your job. Then you can make additional adjustments to make the UI fit your work habits. For more information, see Customizing Role Center and Pages.

Lists of documents, customers, items, worksheets, and so on, have been enhanced to create a task-based work place. Here you can view more information about the selected documents in FactBoxes. The tasks users most commonly need for the list are promoted to the ribbon.

You can read more about list places here.

Task pages work in Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the same way e-mails open in Outlook: they open on top of the navigation layer (the window that contains the navigation pane) and include a menu bar, a ribbon, and FactBoxes. For Microsoft Dynamics NAV, all documents, sales orders, customer cards, warehouse receipts and so on, have been transformed into task pages.

As in the list places, the ribbon promotes those tasks that are most commonly performed within this context. For example, on a sales order, you most frequently need the commands Release, Print Order Confirmation, Create Inventory Pick and so on. Instead of having to search for them in the menus, you will find them promoted on the ribbon.

Tabs have become FastTabs that can be collapsed and expanded so that you can control how much information you see at once. Lines also appear in a FastTab. To expand or collapse a FastTab, you click on the small arrow on the far right of the band.

Fields from a FastTab can be promoted to show on the FastTab header when the band is collapsed. This enables you to view important summary information without having to expand the FastTab.

You can decide which information you want to include on the FastTab header when the FastTab is collapsed.

The ribbon, just below the menu bar, presents your most-used tasks and menu items where you can easily access them with one click, instead of having to look through menus to find them.

Each area of Microsoft Dynamics NAV has been designed to make sure the tasks that are the most important to users are promoted in commands on the menu bar or in tasks on the ribbon. Even so, you may want to make changes to the ribbon to suit your needs. You can add any command or action to the ribbon using the Customize Ribbon option.

For information about customizing the ribbon, see Ribbon.

FactBoxes on list places and task pages provide you with additional information. This means that you can quickly find related information about an order, customer, invoice, item, or vendor. This helps you to make solid business decisions in a timely manner. For example, on the Customers list place, you can use the Customer Sales History FactBox to get a quick overview of a customer’s sales statistics without opening the customer card. The FactBox includes a count and links to sales orders, quotes, invoices, and so on, so that you can drill-down to the document you need. In the Notes FactBox you can add comments to records or communicate with other users about a specific document.