CiviCRM Community Forums (archive)

There are many places where CiviCRM does not let you navigate between places that are clearly related.
E.g.
- from a list of members of a group to the "edit this group" page, and back.

Also there are some links that could be made more obvious.
E.g.
- from a civi contact to the drupal user page, and back.

Then there are ajaxy features that prevent permalinking and browser back/forward navigation:
E.g.
- tabs within a contact page (Summary, Contributions, Pledges, Groups etc).

Breadcrumbs: Some do exist, but they are not really useful.

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I have the feeling I had this a number of times with different examples, but can't think of more atm. It is not the first time I feel a bit lost in the Civi backend.
Overall, I think CiviCRM lacks a noun-driven navigation, where every entity has its main page, and from there you can visit all the secondary pages related to this entity.
E.g. in Drupal you have node/123, and from there you can find node/123/edit, node/123/devel etc, and if you need to, you can add more of these sub-pages.

Disclaimer:
CiviCRM is not really my main job, I just have to touch it every once in a while - usually Xavier does the Civi part of our projects.