Have a tabbed table in a notes application. And this is going to be “webified”.
So the main idea is to keep the design as much as possible. When I look at the table it refreshes on keyword change and go to another tab. When saving the doc we would like to keep the current tab opened.
So, there is by checking on the html code possible to use &TableRow=1.x#1 for the table 1 (and x is the tab) but to keep that working? By clicking on a tab all I see change is the &seq variable.
Is there a nice, rather simple way to keep the normal behaviour for a tabbed table and be able to “work” with the tab id/number? Because I can’t use the &seq… but I can open a specific tab via tablerow argument but that won’t get updated when I tab along.
I vaguely remember doing this a long, long time ago in a place far, far away.
Since then, I’ve been using DHTML to replace the tabbed tables, and also the page refresh whenever a field changes. It’s much quicker if you have a lot of fields and calculations and the end users may not have a real good connection.
If you want to keep going the same route, you should first add an ID for the table. In the “table properties” html tab (last one), you’ll see the first field: “Name/ID”. Add a value there, e.g. “MyTable”.
Then, create a c-4-d field called “$MyTable”, with a value of @ThisValue. From what I recall, that should do it for ya’.
You can find other simple examples if you just search “dhtml” on that site.
I did a lot of improvements on this, but once you get the idea it’s fairly simple to get to work. (This version is for IE only - needs some tweaking for Firefox).
It’s not a tabbed table as such, but the technique is more-or-less the same. The survey/wizard application could have more pages than could be reasonably handled with the tab metaphor, so previous/next buttons were used instead. Adapting the code to a tabbed table should be simple. If you need to post back to the server along the way, just maintain the “where are we” in a hidden field that gets updated on the tab click.
