Magic Button - Open form to specific tab?

There might be some easier solution available. Not sure whether this will be helpful, but this is what I did to find an alternate solution to this problem. 
I moved the information that I needed to show under a tab in a form of a project to a separate table and had it show up in the tab as an 'embedded report' from the other table. E.g., I have a tab called 'documents' in a project's form and it lists (rather, pulls an 'embedded report') all the documents uploaded to QB related to a project from a separate table called 'documents' within the QB application.
I created a button on my dashboard with a direct link to that report from the other table.
In essence, when you click on the button it doesn't take you to the tab, but takes you to the source from where the information is pulled to show up under the tab.
Hope I am making sense.

I have not found a way to do this; and I know you are not the first person to ask.

If, however, you choose not to use TABS, and instead use Section Headings; there is a way to anchor a text element in each Section of a Form and then be able to redirect to a Form and have the form place the view at that anchored section (see portion of this post after the ***).

There are probably other techniques; and these days I personally prefer the TAB form layout better than one long scrollable Form.

I also do not recommend building multiple-forms, and being able to navigate to a customized form, just to provide the user a one-less-click experience; as this is a lot more work for an Admin to maintain.

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At the top of your Form Layout, insert a new row and select the form element Text.

Then, in your Text Item Properties text: box put:

<p id="top" style="display: block; position: relative; top: -120px; visibility: hidden;"></p>

<a href="#nameOfYourSection" class="Vibrant Primary" style="font-weight: bold">Button Label Name</a>

<a href="#DifferentSectionName" class="Vibrant Primary" style="font-weight: bold">Button Label Name</a>


Then create another Form Element of Text and place it directly underneath a Section Heading form element.  In the Text Item Properties text: box put:

<p id="nameOfYourSection" style="display: block; position: relative; top: -120px; visibility: hidden;"></p><a href="#top">^ Top</a>


You can place these throughout your form and have a corresponding button at the top of your form to easily navigate longer forms.  This was how I would do it before TABS came into the platform.

Remember to make sure the id is the exact same name as the href="# name value that you use at the top of the form (no spaces allowed).  i.e.  #contacts will have an id="contacts"

You can then put these anchors in your form and make the navigation easier for Users inside a form as well as append to a URL the #anchor point when redirecting.

To add an anchor point to the end of a redirect add the "#idNameHere" in your URL.

Example URL output:
https://laurahillier.quickbase.com/db/bh74wc3me?a=dr&rid=9182#contacts

If you mouse over the tab you want to direct the user to and look at the link displayed in your status bar, you'll see a string at the end of the URL like #tab_t1
Append that string to the URL in your magic button and it will open the form with focus on the selected tab. 

Thanks, all!!!