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Make the activated detail tab smarter when switching rows to support different variants

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  • May 22, 2026
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Often there are situations where you want to show a different tab-variant as a detail tab based on a specific property of the selected row in the main grid. This is possible by making multiple references and let the context procedure only show the detail tab with the tab-variant based on the property value.

When there are multiple detail tabs for the main subject, this has one major downside though: Normally the GUI remembers the activated detail tab when the user switches rows in the main grid. However when the context procedure switches the reference for a different tab-variant, it activates the first visible detail tab.

This creates inconsequent behaviour for the user when switching rows in the main grid because sometimes it does keep the same detail tab activated and sometimes it doesn’t. From the user perspective, the different references to the same detail tab are the same thing.

To improve the behaviour of cases when the activated detail tab becomes hidden by a context procedure, the GUI/Indicium should prefer activating the first visible detail tab of the same target table as the previous activated detail tab (before activating the first visible detail tab).

An alternative (instead of checking if it is the same target table) could be that it activates the first visible detail tab with the same translation value.

 

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Arie V
Community Manager
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  • July 24, 2026

@PeterKeeris Could you clarify for what use case you are switching between different Variants of a Detail subject using a Context procedure?

And do you do this for multiple Subjects with multiple Variants as Detail tab? If it’s only a single Subject with multiple Variants, your Idea would be resolved if you order these Subject Variants to be the first Detail tabs, right?

At first impression, this feels a bit gimmicky to implement and I wonder if you’re perhaps working around another limitation of our platform.


Arie V
Community Manager
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  • July 24, 2026
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