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The mobile tab bar

On a phone, the whole product collapses into a five-slot bar at the bottom of the screen. Four of those slots are yours — each person pins the pages they actually open, and the fifth slot is the door to everything else.

#Why this exists

The desktop app has room for a full sidebar. A phone doesn't. And the people on phones — mechanics in a truck, operators on a jobsite — aren't browsing the product. They open it to do one of two or three things, fast, with a thumb. A static menu buried behind a hamburger would put their most-used screen two taps away every time.

So the mobile layout puts a fixed bar across the bottom and lets each user decide what lives in it. A field tech who works tickets all day pins Tickets. A buyer who lives in equipment requests pins Equipment. The bar becomes a per-person shortcut row, and the things you rarely touch stay one tap away under More instead of cluttering the screen.

#What you're looking at

The Tickets list on a phone, with a bottom bar showing Tasks, Tickets (highlighted blue), Equipment, Mobilize, and More.
The bar sits below the content on every screen. Here the user is on Tickets, so that tab is highlighted blue. Out of the box the bar comes pre-loaded with the four most common field pages — Tasks, Tickets, Equipment, Mobilize — plus the More button on the right.

Every slot is the same shape: an icon stacked over a short label. The page you're currently on is tinted blue so you always know where you are. The labels in the bar are deliberately short — Mobilize, Maintain, Docs — because they have to fit four-up across a phone. The fuller names (Mobilizations, Maintenance, Documents) show up in the menu, where there's room.

#How the bar is built

Two kinds of slots, always in this order:

Four is a hard cap — the bar never grows past four favorites plus More, so it always fits a phone and never wraps. It ships full: Tasks, Tickets, Equipment, and Mobilize are pinned by default. Which four stay is entirely up to the user — to add a fifth interest, they swap one out.

#Walkthrough

#Step 1: Open the menu with More

Tap More and a sheet slides up titled Go to. It's the full directory of everywhere this user can navigate, split into two groups.

The 'Go to' sheet. A FAVORITES section labeled 4 / 4 lists Tasks, Tickets, Equipment, and Mobilizations with filled gold stars; below a divider, Maintenance, Units, Documents, and Profile have hollow stars.
The Go to menu. The top section is Favorites, with a 4 / 4 counter — the bar ships full, so all four slots are taken by Tasks, Tickets, Equipment, and Mobilizations. Everything below the divider is a page that could be a favorite but isn't yet. Tapping any row navigates there; tapping the star on the right pins or unpins it.

The star on each row is the control. A filled gold star means the page is in your bar; a hollow star means it isn't. The list of pages itself depends on the user — administrators see Settings and admin pages other team members never will, and the Parts shortcut only appears for users whose account is linked to Parts Hub Pro.

#Step 2: The four-favorite limit

Because the bar holds exactly four and it starts full, trying to pin a fifth doesn't quietly bump one out. The app stops you with a short message and leaves your bar untouched.

With four favorites already pinned, tapping a fifth star raises a toast reading 'You can only favorite 4 pages — Unstar one of your favorites to make room for a new one.'
At 4 / 4, tapping a hollow star — here Maintenance — raises "You can only favorite 4 pages — Unstar one of your favorites to make room for a new one." Nothing changes until you free a slot.

#Step 3: Unpin one to make room

Tap the gold star next to a favorite you reach for less — say Mobilizations — and it drops out of the Favorites group, its star empties, and the counter falls to 3 / 4.

The sheet after unpinning Mobilizations. The FAVORITES counter reads 3 / 4 with Tasks, Tickets, and Equipment; Mobilizations has moved below the divider with a hollow star.
Mobilizations unpinned. It moves below the divider into the un-favorited list, and the counter reads 3 / 4 — one slot open. The change is instant; there's no save button.

#Step 4: Pin the page you want

Now tap the hollow star next to Maintenance. It jumps up into the Favorites group, its star fills in, and you're back to 4 / 4 — with Maintenance in, Mobilizations out.

The sheet after favoriting Maintenance. The FAVORITES counter reads 4 / 4 with Tasks, Tickets, Equipment, and Maintenance; Mobilizations now sits below the divider.
Maintenance pinned. The counter is back at 4 / 4 and the swap is done — Tasks, Tickets, Equipment, Maintenance.

#Step 5: The bar updates

Close the sheet and the bar has rearranged itself. Maintenance — shown as the short label Maintain — has taken Mobilize's old slot, one thumb-tap from anywhere in the app.

The bottom bar now shows Tasks, Tickets, Equipment, Maintain, followed by More.
The bar after the swap: Tasks, Tickets, Equipment, Maintain — then More. Mobilize hasn't gone anywhere; it's one tap away under More, with its star ready to pin back.

#Step 6: More follows where you are

Here's the detail that makes the bar feel smart. When you navigate to a page that isn't one of your favorites, the More button stops saying "More." It takes on that page's icon and label, and highlights blue — so the bar still shows you where you are, even on a page you never pinned.

On the Units page, the last slot in the bar is highlighted and reads 'Units' with a chevron picker indicator, instead of 'More'.
Viewing Units — a page that isn't favorited. The last slot now reads Units and is highlighted, with a small up/down chevron marking it as still the menu opener. Tap it and the Go to sheet opens as usual; navigate back to a favorite and the slot reverts to plain "More."

#What can go in a slot

The menu lists every destination the signed-in user is allowed to reach. The common ones, with the short label the bar uses and the fuller name the menu shows:

Bar labelMenu name — what it opens
TasksTasks — the action items assigned to you, with an unread count badge.
TicketsTickets — the ticket inbox from the field.
EquipmentEquipment — equipment requests.
MobilizeMobilizations — moving owned units between sites.
MaintainMaintenance — service and repair work requests.
UnitsUnits — the equipment/asset list.
DocsDocuments — uploaded files and records.
ProfileProfile — the signed-in user, and where Sign out lives.

Beyond these, the menu adds entries that only some users see: Settings and the admin pages (Accounts, Users, Categories, Feature Flags) for admins, and a Parts shortcut for users whose account is linked to Parts Hub Pro. Whatever the user can reach, they can pin.