Multiple tab groups

[pedro_magueija]

Hi everyone,

Has anyone created or seen a multi tab form?

Something like the screenshot below:

I'm having trouble when loading the xml all folders get grouped. However when previewed from B1 Studio works fine.

Thanks in advance.

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Best regards,

Pedro Magueija

[Johan_Hakkesteegt · Accepted solution]

Hi Pedro,

I only know tabs from .NET, so just a couple of thoughts:

• Tabs consist of a parent container and child tab pages. Is the xml structure correct, are pages assigned to the correct parent container ?
• Tab pages have names and indexes. Is the xml structure / content correct, does each separate set of tab pages start at index 0 ?
• Does B1 somehow infer parent container and/or page index from the tab page name ? I mean, you have two groups of tab pages, but the names are criss-cross divided ?

Regards,

Johan

[pedro_magueija · Accepted solution]

Hi Johan,

Thank you for your reply.

In B1, at least as far as I know, tabs are a bit different. They don't have the same concept as in .net, so basically they are a clickable control. When that happens the form PaneLevel should change to display the controls on the given PaneLevel.

In the xml, you can create groups:

<items>
  <action type="group">
  <item uid="tab1" />
  <item uid="tab2" />
  </action>
</items>

but if when I create two separate groups and load via LoadBatchActions they get automatically grouped in one single group. It effectively changes the xml (exporting it via form.GetAsXml).

I'm wondering if this is a bug, or if this is by design (hence why I asked if anyone seen an SAP B1 form with more then one tab group).

Thanks again for your answer.

Cheers.

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Best regards,

Pedro Magueija

[Johan_Hakkesteegt · Accepted solution]

Okay, I see the concept. How do you determine the identity of a group ?

In your example xml, you add a group with two members, but there is no specific identifier. Is B1 supposed to assign its own identifier ? Perhaps based on the order in which you add the actions ?

[pedro_magueija · Accepted solution]

Hi Johan,

I don't really know how B1 identifies the groups. I was assuming that if they where in different <items> tags they would be in different groups. But internally I can't really say how it's processed.

From other forms xml (e.g.: AR Invoice) I've seen this:

<items>
  <action type="group">
  <item uid="tab1" />
  <item uid="tab2" />
  </action>
</items>
<items>
  <action type="group">
  <item uid="tab2" />
  <item uid="tab3" />
  </action>
</items>

But when I tried to put that in my form it "merges" them all into one.

Thanks again for your help.

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Best regards,

Pedro Magueija

[Johan_Hakkesteegt · Accepted solution]

Hi Pedro,

By the look of that example, I would assume that B1 assigns identities to your items based on the order in which they appear in the xml.

However from your second example structure, I don't see how it is determined that a group is a parent, a sibling, or a child.

What would the xml look like for example for a tab group, with two tab pages, and a button on the first tab page ?

Regards,

Johan

[pedro_magueija · Accepted solution]

Hi Johan,

That gets even funnier:

<items>
  <action type="add">
  ...
  <item top="55" left="47" width="65" height="20" AffectsFormMode="1" description="" disp_desc="0" enabled="1" from_pane="0" to_pane="0" linkto="" right_just="0" type="4" visible="1" uid="Item_8" IsAutoGenerated="0">
  <specific caption="Button1" />
  </item>
  </action>
</items>
<ChooseFromListCollection>
  <action type="add">
  <ChooseFromList UniqueID="-1" ObjectType="-1" MultiSelection="0" IsSystem="1" />
  </action>
</ChooseFromListCollection>
<DataBrowser BrowseBy="" />
<Settings MatrixUID="" Enabled="0" EnableRowFormat="0" />
<items>
  <action type="group">
  <item uid="Item_3" />
  <item uid="Item_6" />
  <item uid="Item_7" />
  </action>
</items>
<items>
  <action type="group">
  <item uid="Item_1" />
  <item uid="Item_4" />
  <item uid="Item_5" />
  </action>
</items>

This is the actual xml of the test from, with two tab groups and a button "inside" the first tab group.

Thanks.

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Best regards,

Pedro Magueija

[Johan_Hakkesteegt · Accepted solution]

Okay, so I see that items are added in reverse order ? You add the button first, and the tab page it goes onto last ?

If so it seems to me that in the button the from_pane="0" to_pane="0" bit determines that the button should appear on the tab page with index 0 (i.e. the first one)

What I wonder about, is that a button is an item with a clear declaration (type="4" uid="Item_8"). Why do you not need to declare the tab page type ?

Is this an implicit thing, i.e. if you don't determine the type it becomes a panel / tab page ?

If that is so, can you explicitly determine a panel / tab page ?

[pedro_magueija · Accepted solution]

Hi Johan,

No, in this case me omitting the rest of the code was sending the wrong message.

You can find the full xml in attachment.

Thanks again.

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Best regards,

Pedro Magueija

test.xml

[Johan_Hakkesteegt · Accepted solution]

What does the disp_desc="0" attribute do ?

[pedro_magueija · Accepted solution]

Hi Johan,

I got the solution from a colleague. Different groups must be bound to a different datasource.

Then you get two different tab groups.

Thanks a lot for the help Johan...

... and Anders.

Cheers.

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Best regards,

Pedro Magueija

[Johan_Hakkesteegt · Accepted solution]

That was the next thing I was going to suggest