Take the 2-minute tour ×  I created an employee review
application that has top-level stateful tabs just like the ones
on this site. There is a tab called "My Employees" and a tab
called "Employee Management" (used by HR only). The issue that I
have is that when you are on the "My Employees" tab or the
"Employee Management" tab, the associated information that is
displayed both give the user access to the "View Employee" page.
So right now, since you can access the "View Employee" page from
both of these tabs, I am deactivating all tabs when the user is
viewing that page. I'm doing this because I don't know which tab
to have active. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there a
better UI navigation technique that I should be using if I have
these types of scenarios, or does this indicate a flaw in the UI
design in general? Is it ok for "View Employee" to be accessable
from 2 tabs? Should I just use stateless tabs (buttons) or is
that poor design as well? Thanks and I appreciate any help you
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