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title: Navigation functions
description: Navigation functions transition users from their current screen to another screen or launcher screen.
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# Navigation functions

Navigation functions transition users from their current screen to another screen or launcher screen.

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Use navigation functions to transition from your current screen to another screen or launcher screen. For example, opening a record from a list, or moving from an employee user profile screen to a manager user profile screen. Navigation functions use the **Global** or **Record** context.

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\[Omitted image "navigation-example.png"\] Alt text: A navigation function configured to navigate from a form field to a user record.

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</table>## Navigation function contexts

-   **Global Context**

    Use global context navigation functions in situation where the navigation does not depend on information from a record. For example, to navigate to a specific screen or launcher screen, you can use a global context navigation function. For examples of global context navigation configuration, see:

    -   [Configure a navigation to a screen](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/mobile/sg-config-navigation-function.md)
    -   [Configure navigation to a launcher screen](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/mobile/sg-launcher-nav-example.md)
-   **Record Context**

    Use record context navigation functions in situations where the navigation depends on information from a record. For example, you want to navigate from the **Assigned to** field in an incident record to the assignee's user record. In this case, you would use a record context navigation.