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Hello,

Is there a way to add tabs to a form through X++ code?

I have a form that contains 1 tab per Name that I manually create

I have a table, with 3 columns
Name       Specific Name     RecID
Name A    SpecificNameA   RecID
Name B    SpecificNameB   RecID

Right now, if I want to add Name C, I have to go into my form and manually create a new tab and set up everything that way. How I would like to have it, is where I just perform code on a class through a button, and it generates a new Tab. I have another form where I create new Names.

I am sorry about the small size of the picture, it basically explains what I said above, 1 button to look up 1 table to generate a new tab for each line on the table using the table's names.
I am aware of Form = New Form(); code, but how does it work if the form already exists?

Thanks!

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You can edit manipulate existing forms at runtime as well. This piece of code adds a new tab page to a tab control called Tab1:

FormTabPageControl tabPage = Tab1.addControl(FormControlType::TabPage, "Tab2"); tabPage.caption("Tab 2"); tabPage.hideIfEmpty(false);

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I was able to generate the tabs as you suggested, thank you :)

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I just ran into another issue, how do I stop it from "continuing" to add tabs?

If my table has 3 records, and I click my button, it will add 3, then it will add 3 more if I click it again.

How do I avoid this? I am using a while select * myTable. Is there a way to "fail" the while select if a tabpage exists?

For example, if I run it, and tabpage1 exists, I would like it to skip tabpage1 and go to 2 and 3. Or if it already has 2, do 1 and then 3.

Is this possible?

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It also keeps updating the first tabPage since I go tabPage.AddConfigurationHere();

Is there a way for it while select and then say "TabPage1, TabPage2, TabPage3" etc?

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You can remember tabs that you've already added, check if the tab with the same name already exists or fix your logic in some other way.

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I was able to fix it by removing my tab pages on my form and creating it as an object.

FormTabPageControl tp;

super();

while select * From cu

{

s = cu.JobName;

c = cu.Name;

tp = Tab.addControl(FormControlType::TabPage,s);

tp.autoDeclaration(True);

tp.helpText(s);

tp.widthMode(1);

tp.heightMode(1);

tp.caption(c);

tp.hideIfEmpty(false);

}

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Please don't forget to mark the verified answer(s), if this thread is to be closed.

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I am still having issues.

Perhaps I am writing this wrong... I am trying to generate 2 fields from one of my data sources.

void clicked()

{

   FormTabPageControl     tp;

   FormGridControl         fgc;

   FormStringControl       fsc;

   str s;

   str c;

   //int id1 = fieldName2id(tableName2id("CIM_Status"), "Message");

   //int id2 = fieldName2id(tableName2id("CIM_Status"), "UtilityID");

   CIM_Utilities cu;

   super();

   while select * From cu

   {

       s = cu.JobName;

       c = cu.Name;

       tp = Tab.addControl(FormControlType::TabPage,s);

       tp.autoDeclaration(True);

       tp.helpText(s);

       tp.widthMode(1);

       tp.heightMode(1);

       tp.caption(c);

       tp.hideIfEmpty(false);

       fgc = tp.addControl(FormControlType::Grid,s);

       fgc.autoDeclaration(true);

       fgc.widthMode(1);

       fgc.heightmode(1);

       fgc.dataSource(tableNum(CIM_Status));

       //fgc.dataSource(CIM_Status);

       fsc = fgc.addControl(FormControlType::String,"CIM_TMP_Message");

       fsc.autoDeclaration(True);

       fsc.WidthMode(1);

       fsc.label("Message");

       //fsc.dataSource(CIM_Status);

       //fsc.dataField(id1);

       fsc.dataSource(tableNum(CIM_Status));

       fsc.dataField(fieldNum(CIM_Status, Message));

       fsc = fgc.addControl(FormControlType::String,"CIM_TMP_UtilityID");

       fsc.WidthMode(1);

       fsc.label("Utility ID");

       //fsc.dataSource(CIM_Status);

       //fsc.dataField(id2);

       fsc.dataSource(tableNum(CIM_Status));

       fsc.dataField(fieldNum(CIM_Status, UtilityID));

   }

}

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I made a type mistake on the 2nd field should be int64.

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It seems to be a different topic than "How to add a tab to a form", therefore you should probably create a new thread. I also don't see any description of any problem.

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