Choose a tab to be visible on a screen when a user encounters it in the workflow

[paul vinter]

Hi there,

First question here - I have searched to see if this was previously asked with no result.

Is it possible to make a screen open on a specific tab when the user encounters it during the workflow? Example, let's say I have a screen with 4 tabs (A, B, C and D). As a user I am a few transitions down in the workflow and as such the relevant information for me to enter is only on the C tab - is it possible that when I open the issue that tab is already visible to me so I do not have to click on it to enter the fields therein?

I hope that is clear.

Thanks in advance.

Paul

[RambanamP · Accepted solution]

try something like this using JavaScript

var tab1      = AJS.$("a[href='#tab1']").closest("li");
var tab2      = AJS.$("a[href='#tab2']").closest("li");
var tab3      = AJS.$("a[href='#tab3']").closest("li");
var tab4      = AJS.$("a[href='#tab4']").closest("li");
tab1.hide();
tab2.hide();
tab3.hide();
tab4.hide();
showTab(3);
 
function showTab(tabId)
{          
   for(i = 1; i <= 4; i++)
   {
       var tableObject = document.getElementById('tab' + i);               
       if(tableObject)
       {
          if (i == tabId)
          {
             tableObject.style.display = 'table';
          }
          else
          {
             tableObject.style.display = 'none';
          }
       }
   }
}

check this also

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/193814/how-to-show-hide-tabs-in-a-transition-screen-with-multiple-tabs

[paul vinter]

Thank you both. Apologies for not spotting that previous post beforehand.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You can't do this out of the box. Maybe you can do some javascript hacks. Have a field which is visible only on that workflow transition and add some script in its description to select the tab on load. or something similar!

[paul vinter]

Thanks for the information.

I guess my alternative for, let's say, a screen with 6 tabs (each related to a transition in the workflow) would be to have 6 different transition screens, each with a limited number of fields, with the final screen highlighting all the fields. This would allow each different user to only be concerned wtih their own information.