Managing Tabs in Soopio

In Soopio, each object type can have assigned specific tabs. Tabs are top navigation items displayed in the object rendering. This guide will help you understand how these tabs work and how they can be managed.

System Tabs

There are several system tabs which are Overview, Activity, and Mentioned in. These tabs are basic system defined views on the object:

1. Overview: This tab renders the respective object’s data (properties).
2. Activity: This tab provides an overview of any audited actions that happened to that particular object.
3. Mentioned in: This tab is a lookup of where in the whole application the respective object is mentioned. This is useful for looking up the object in various contexts.

Custom Tabs

You can define your own tabs by clicking on the Actions dropdown in the Type detail and selecting Top Navigation Editor. In the Top Navigation Editor, you can add new tabs: Linked view, Canvas. You can also hide the system tabs. By dragging the items around, you can change their order. Note that any changes here are automatically published.

Linked View Tab

Linked view means that under this tab the user will find a render of the implementer’s chosen Data view. For now it is important that you can set custom title, icon, choose the respective view which will be then rendered under this tab, and set whether it will be accessible directly from the context menu of the object (accessible by right-clicking the object by users), and set whether the user will be able to add child item of the associated Data view’s type from this tab. Further, you can specify conditions under which the tab will actually appear, and password which will be used to protect accessing the tab.

Canvas Tab

Adding a tab with related canvas means that you can specify title, icon and which canvas will be then rendered and also you can choose whether this will be accessible from the context menu and as well whether there will be some conditions which need to be met for the tab to actually show up and also you can specify the password. This is very useful because the canvas can hold any layout so by this option you have the freedom to actually define any tab and any content within the tab, which will be then shown under the specific conditions in the objects detail.

Editing Tabs

To edit any tab, just click it to show details and then under the Actions dropdown select Edit. Top navigation items (tabs) can be dragged around to change the order.