I didn't seem to find the "Fix" to this in the posts I looked at so I thought I'd provide some Intell/Obervations/My fix here.
My Use Case:
Section 1
Element1, Element2
Section 2
Lots of Elements
Section 3
5 Checkboxes
5 Tabs
Varying # of elements per [Tab]
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Problem Was:
In "Add" mode, & edit if I specific conditions occurred, the following occurred.
Tab1 elements were always visible, even though form rule1 was:
When chkbox1 = checked Show [Tab1] - In "Add" all fields are blank (Unchecked). In theory, that rule should supersede the [Tab1] "clicked open" default behavior mentioned by Mark Shnier. That default behavior is clearly not limited to [Tab1] as posted by Sherry Blackburn. I can confirm the 1st 2 [Tabs] exhibit this behavior (Glitch1)
The ONLY fix to having all elements for Tabs exceeding 2 is to write rules that Show every element in the [Tab].
In my case, and perhaps for others, I don't want [Tab1] to be shown by default when the form was opened in "Add", or edit if the project [Form] was not truly going to be started (i.e. Only a proof of concept project).
In order for no [Tabs] to be shown by default, I created a new [Tab1] that has no Label and created a rule that would never evaluate as True. Referencing the top of this post that looks like this:
In Section1
When
multiple conditions are true
All
Element1 is equal to blank
Element1 is not equal to blank
Show [Tab] (This is now Tab1.
My guess is the function that controls the creation/displaying/setting focus to [Tabs] has code that limits those behaviors.
Hope this helps someone and provides some intell on what's goiung on with Tabs.
If you only have one tab and try to hide it then the name of the tab will be hidden but the underlying elements will appear. I'd recommend creating another tab, and then I think you can hide both.
Apologies,
That's what I was trying to get across as my work-around "Fix".
This "Glitch" has a couple parts to it.
1. Tab 1 showing all elements by Default, which I created a fix for via what you mentioned.
2. All Tab elements not showing when a Tab past 2 is Shown via another form element. The only work around for that is to include a rule that shows every element in Tabs 3-x.
Personally the not showing Tab elements until the Tab is clicked doesn't bother me much, but it's all a preference thing and that's the work-around.
Thanks.
