Re: Developer - Tab folder within tab folder

[Quoted] Hah! I am soo pleased. I have included that as an advanced interview question in our (koletzke and Dorsey) upcoming Developer book, but our tech [Quoted] reviewer complained that it was a crazy thing to ask and nobody would care.

In any case, here are the steps.
[Quoted] First, the code is not a nightmare. We have it in our template and it takes about 3 minutes to set up in a new form.

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1. You can't really make tabs within tabs. Just make two independent tab objects. The second (subtab) one will have to be shown and hidden using code.
2. Do a show view of the subtab on the tab where the subtab appears.
3. If you enter a block on the main tab page, the subtab will disapear as the main tab page moves to the front. You will need to show the subtab on a [Quoted] when new block instance trigger of the block on the main tab page.

Show view may not work for the subtab. Use a go item to a null item (0 height, 0 width at position 0,0 on the tab page) instead if you have trouble.

Note that the redisplay happens at the end of the code. In one place I had to set up a trivial timer to get both tabs to display and have the cursor end up in the right place.

We have tabs and subtabs set up in our template with a package set up for any additional code that may be needed.

Note that tab pages are global, i.e. if you have a page1 on two canvases, you won't be able to tell which one has been opened. We name out pages tab1, tab2,... on the main tab and subtab1, subtab2,... on the subtabs.

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Paul Dorsey
[Quoted] Dulcian, Inc.
www.dulcian.com
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>Can I create tab folder pages within tab folder pages?