Programmatically hide dashboard Tabs
Hi all, I want to manage tabs on a dashboard in a programmatically way, showing/hiding them based on the result of an XFBR call (or similar). Can someone point me in the right direction, please ? ...
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Sergey
OneStream Employee
OneStream EmployeeHello FabioG​
You can actually hide / unhide buttons on a dashboard, programmatically, using dynamic dashboards in workspace assemblies. The XFBR is the easiest way :)
Regards,
Just confirming what Sergey said, This was an example of the power of dynamic dashboards, where you could truly hide/show content rather than a 'soft' hide which often left you with formatting issues / blank space.
Hi all,
what I want to show/hide is not the content... While using the Tab Layout, I'd like to show/hide tab buttons programmatically, like adding/removing underlying dashboards. These are not buttons (or components) on a dashboard, they are part of the control.
AFAIK this cannot be done programmatically.
Suppose I have Tab1, Tab2 and Tab3. In certain conditions I want to hide Tab2 button, so the tab control has only 2 tabs available. I was able to do so implementing removing the Tab layout and adding a set of buttons that I can show/hide programmatically.
Regards
FabioG
- JackLacava
It can be done programmatically just fine, but it's an advanced technique that requires a Dynamic Dashboard Service implementing a Repeater pattern.
The dashboard with a Tab layout would be set as an Embedded Dynamic Repeater which is then populated with a variable number of Embedded Component instances, each pointing to the dashboard to include in each tab. You would have to force a reload of the tabbed interface each time you want to modify the number of tabs, which might be a bit awkward depending on the version you're using (it might not retain the currently-selected tab).
Tabbed layouts are generally discouraged anyway - they look a bit dated and they tend to load all the linked dashboards even if not displayed, which might result in slow loading times. But if you are interested I can put together an example.
