Tabbed Content

A tab layout control container. Tabbed Content allows to use of many controls in a small space.

For small devices, please avoid using of tabbed content and consider alternative layouts.

For tabbed content you can configure the following properties:

Section Name

The name of section is for controlling read only or visible state of a section. If set to a value, this section can be configured in task properties.

Dynamic Rules

The dynamic rules section allows specifying format and warning messages of any element and section. It consists of two parts, one of them is for formatting rules, and the other one is for validation rules.

Formatting rules allow you to change the formats (text colour, background colour, style) and visibility of control depending on a condition.
Further information can be found here.
Validation rules allow you to validate the data that the end user enters.
Further information can be found here.

Data
XPath to data model to be attached. If set to empty parent data element is used.

Active Tab XPath
XPath of active tab index as a number value. Updating the value of this XPath causes it to switch the specified tab page automatically.

Tab Page

You may also need to control tab pages individually and you can configure the following properties for a tab page:

Label
Label to show as header of tab page.

Dynamic Rules

The dynamic rules section allows specifying format and warning messages of any element and section. It consists of two parts, one of them is for formatting rules, and the other one is for validation rules.

Formatting rules allow you to change the formats (text colour, background colour, style) and visibility of control depending on a condition.
Further information can be found here.
Validation rules allow you to validate the data that the end user enters.
Further information can be found here.

Bound XPath

XPath of the element. If set to empty, it uses the parent XPath.

Other properties

Cut is used to move tabbed content.
Copy is used to copy tabbed content.
Delete is used to delete tabbed content.
XML is used to view or add xml of the tabbed content.
Convert is used to change tabbed content to other content controls.
Add new is used to open new tabbed content page.