Linking tabs within the same email

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Hello,

currently got a problem and I’m completely new to IBM Notes. I’d like to link between tabs on a table in my email, but for some reason it only works with certain tabs.

For example, if I click on the ‘Introduction’ tab, the ‘People’ tab works fine, but ‘Market’ doesn’t. And then when I click through manually to ‘Market’, I can’t access ‘Other’, and the ‘Teams’ tab goes to ‘People’ rather than linking onto the ‘Teams’ tab. Could anyone help me? Thanks

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Subject: Reply

Thanks for the reply.

When I say link between tabs, I mean by clicking on ‘People’ (for example), it will move automatically to the ‘People’ tab, much like a hyperlink.

This is in Notes form, and I received this design from somebody else, as I wouldn’t know how to make one myself. I was told to edit the content to fit what I wanted it to say. The original worked perfectly, and it was easy to jump between the tabs. So in effect, I want this design with my own content.

If that doesn’t make sense, or you can’t help further, I will try to find from whoever in the network it originated from. Cheers

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Subject: Shouldn’t be hard

If the design you have is what’s known as a ‘tabbed table’ then the behavior should be exactly as you describe; click a tab, see that portion of the table. No hyperlinks are involved, it’s just built into the tabbed table design construct.

I don’t have a 9 designer but I suspect the process should be similar to older versions.

  • Open the form in designer.
  • Right Click anywhere in the table
  • Select Table Properties
  • Look at the 6th tab from the left (should look like a table with one row highlighted
  • If you’re working with a tabbed table, the property box should be pretty long.
  • The cell marked ‘Tab Label and Caption’ sets the tab name.
  • The actual row of the table is edited directly. If you click a tab labeled ‘employee data’ and what’s displayed is price data, that most likely means that someone put the wrong content into a row so just re-label the tab.
    If you’re new to design and are going to be doing this much, you should just set aside a month to get used to working in Notes. If this is a one-time thing, push it back to the original designer.

If you’re doing this in the standard Notes client, you need to download and install the designer client and hope the admins have given you rights to work on the design, otherwise you’re not going to be able to do anything.

Hope that helps.

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Subject: Need more info

What does ‘link between tabs’ mean?

Is this a Notes form or one viewed via a web browser?

Did you do the design or is this something you got in an email from someone else?

Where did the tabbed table come from and how is it designed?

In the Notes client, you build a table structure in designer, then tell the table how to appear with one of the choices being tabs. The tabs are automagically created for you and you can add the titles. You can convert it back to a non-tabbed table by removing that checkbox in the design choice.

Need more data, cap’n.