Tabbed tables in read mode?

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Does anyone know if there’s a way to change table tabs programmatically if the user is not in edit mode? Our users like to have an action button to change tabs so that they don’t have to scroll to the top of the page to get to the next tab, but if they’re in read mode it won’t change the tab. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Beth

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Subject: Domino 6 let’s you poistion the tabs at the top, left, right, or bottom.

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Subject: RE: Domino 6 let’s you poistion the tabs at the top, left, right, or bottom.

Well, yes, but that just moves the problem to a different part of the page! If I put them at the bottom then people have to scroll all the way to the bottom to switch tabs.

I’ve never tried them on the side, but I would expect that they are arranged from the top down, so once again, as soon as you scroll down a page you would lose them there also.

Other ideas, anyone?

I’d love it if there were a way to program a table without being in edit mode.

Thanks,

Beth

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Subject: Tabbed tables in read mode?

You can have it open in edit mode by default. The fields can have duplicate computed for display fields associated with them. Then you can add a button to ‘Edit’ the document. When this is hit, a flag is changed on a field and the doc is refreshed. The computed fields are now hidden (based on the flag/hide-when formula) and the editable fields are now visible (based on the flag/hide-when formula). It’s not a quick solution…but it works.

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Subject: RE: Tabbed tables in read mode?

Thanks, Mike. That’s very clever - brilliant, in fact, but unfortunately, it doesn’t help me. This database is one used by many people and only one person can have a document opened in edit mode at a time (usually the owner of the doc), but others will be reading the doc while the owner has it open in edit mode. So if someone tried to open it in this “fake” edit mode, they would get an error that the document is locked.

Any other ideas, anyone?

Thanks,

Beth