How I Replaced Cluttered Tabs with a Single Dynamic Button in Salesforce
Iryna Zasikan Split, Croatia sivanirina@gmail.com 4 th January 2026 OVERVIEW At some point, almost every Salesforce org runs into the same problem. You start with a clean navigation bar. Then you add a few custom tabs. Then a few more. And suddenly, users are overwhelmed. They don’t know where to click — even though everything they need technically exists. I recently faced this exact situation and asked myself a simple question: What if users didn’t need to see all those tabs — but could still reach them easily? That’s when a small but powerful idea emerged: a dynamic navigation button . THE IDEA Instead of exposing many tabs in the app navigation, we can place smart buttons on a Home page (or any Lightning page ) that guide users exactly where they need to go. The button text should be configurable. The destination should be configurable. And the component should be reusable everywhere. Let’s build it. STEPS Step 1: Create the Lightning Web Component We’ll start with a simpl...
