Is it possible to navigate to pivot control page by a button clicked event

Question

I'm trying to create a wp7 pivot control application. On click of a button in the first page, I would like to navigate to another page which is already a pivot page. Is it possible ?

Solution 1

If you have for example following definition for the Pivot control:

 <controls:Pivot x:Name="SettingsPivot" Title="settings">
   <controls:PivotItem x:Name="GeneralSettings" Header="general settings">
     <!-- Pivot Item content -->
   </controls:PivotItem>
   <controls:PivotItem x:Name="ConnectivitySettings" Header="connectivity settings">
     <!-- Pivot Item content -->
   </controls:PivotItem>
   <controls:PivotItem x:Name="OtherSettings" Header="other settings">
     <!-- Pivot Item content -->
   </controls:PivotItem>
 </controls:Pivot>

Then you can go to for example OtherSettings using this code in the button click event handler:

SettingsPivot.SelectedItem = OtherSettings;

Solution 2

do it like this

NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri("/Pages/Page.xaml?PivotMain.SelectedIndex = 0", UriKind.Relative));

SelectedIndex can be whatever depending how many pivot items you have

Solution 3

Here is how you can navigate to another page, it does not matter if it is a pivot page or not:

NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri("/SettingsPivot.xaml", UriKind.Relative));

If you are trying to navigate to another pivotitem then you will need to do the following

int i=1; //This is the index of the pivotitem you would like to navigate to

PivotMenuName.SelectedIndex = i;

Solution 4

Sounds like you want the second piece of code. If your Pivot has 2 items, (say item1, item2), then to navigate to item2 from item1, you would use:

MyPivot.SelectedIndex = IndexOfPageToGoTo;

Check out this quick example that demonstrates it .

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/129101/WindowsPhonePivotApplication1.zip

That said, this isn't recommended if you're using it for a "Wizard" style application. See http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/08/13/windows-phone-panorama-versus-pivot-ux-guidelines.aspx

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Comments

[New developer]

I'm sorry I din get you right. For navigating to the next page, we generally use : NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri("/SettingsPivot.xaml", UriKind.Relative)); However, In case of a Pivot application we have all the details in the same MainPage.xaml. So in that case, how should I navigate?

[Jari]

@New developer: Please consider accepting this as an answer if it was what you were after, so that this question gets closed in a proper way.

[dlewin]

this kind of answers are like gold. I have been searching in MSDN, IRC channel, and google and lost my time to finally arrive to this one : great ! (+1)

[Zia Ur Rahman]

Thanks Jari, Great help... keep it up.

[王凯越 Kaiyue Wang]

Good one, but what if the button is in a page in one of the pivot items, how can I navigate to a different pivot from within the page? I'm in UWP developing now.