Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs

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T Henry — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:55:05 GMT

hi, great webparts. is there an easy way to customize the themes.

re: Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs

BobGerman — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:52:50 GMT

The difficulty depends on how cleanly you want to add a "theme". For each theme, there is a set of images and CSS styles. You could create your own images (perhaps by recoloring some of mine) and then override my CSS styles in your own style sheet. That's the simplest approach. If you wanted to name your theme and make it selectable when editing the web part, then you'd need to change the code.

The CSS file is at _layouts/images/EasyTabParts.css (within any site). You'll notice there is a set of styles for each "theme"; these reference the images that form the background of each tab.

I hope this helps - thanks!

re: Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs

Adi Jayaram — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:34:07 GMT

Hi,

The editor part does not display the checkboxes

to enable zones on individual tabs, please advice.

3. Each row of check boxes corresponds to a web part in the zone, with a checkbox for each of the tabs (by number).

Thanks, Adi

re: Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs

BobGerman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:03:54 GMT

This will normally occur if there are no other web parts in the zone. Zone Tabs needs other web parts so it can show/hide them based on its tabs.

Are you sure you've placed the Zone Tabs in a zone with other web parts?

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Aniket — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:28:37 GMT

Very nice piece of work...

Also it would be great if it will not postback....

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Jack Lapke — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:54:30 GMT

Thanks for sharing this. I don't have permissions to import web parts, but I'll ask system administrators here. I find is amazing that a capbaility that was in SharePoint 2003 was dropped.

re: Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs

BobGerman — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:02:26 GMT

FYI - I have re-posted the SharePoint 2003 version for those who need it.

Nothing was dropped, I just decided to port this to the new ASP.NET 2.0 style web parts, which only work with the new version of SharePoint. Also I wanted to take advantage of the "features" and "solutions" capability for installing and managing customizations to SharePoint, which are MUCH more powerful than what was there before... in the 2003 version I avoided adding any images or style sheets because creating the setup was so difficult.

Anyway thanks for the feedback!

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Suresh — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:53:08 GMT

Is there any way to persist the current tab through a document/comment upload/insert? I've got several tabs that show List View Web Parts with the summary toolbar. A user can click the third tab, Documents, and see a list of all documents. They can also click 'Add a new document' at the bottom and go through that process. At the end of that process, they are sent back to the page with the Zone Tabs Web Part, but the selected tab is always the first tab. It would be great to have a way to have the selected tab be the tab they were just on.

re: Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs

BobGerman — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:46:05 GMT

Thanks Suresh -

It's funny you ask because a bug I had early on was that the tabs got reset with any postback on the page! You'll see some checks in the code to ensure that doesn't happen. The tricky part about your scenario is that the user leaves the page and returns to it via an http get, the usual postback technique of remembering the tab selection won't work.

Perhaps I could drop a cookie on them to remember their most recent tab selection... I'll keep that in mind for the next version ;-)

Thanks!

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bache — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:24:09 GMT

Great job, thanks!

I want to make a slight change - to select a tab according to a parameter in the query string. However I face up some difficulties with building the new solution. I make a new key file to sign the assembly and change the PublicKeyToken in the ZoneTabs.webpart and manifest.xml. I create the new solution, add it, deploy it, activate the feature. But when I try to add the web part, I recieve the error which says that the web part cannot be imported.

Is there anything else which I am missing?

Thanks!

re: Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs

BobGerman — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:13:22 GMT

Thanks Bache -- seems to me it should work if you checked the public key w/the sn command and re-deployed the solution. If you were previously running my version of the web part you might need to manually remove the ZoneTabs.webpart file from the Web Part gallery; I've had issues where the .webpart files don't get updated, which would leave the old public key in place.

Best of luck - thanks!

Page Tab.

Peter. — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:26:41 GMT

Hi Bob,

The Page Tab control is not included in new version?, i have a blank site and i need Page Tab Navigation...

Regards

re: Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs

petka — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:25:36 GMT

Just want to second Aniket on postback issue. Webpart works great, but causes postback when tabs are clicked. Any ideas?

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BobGerman — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:20:58 GMT

Hi Petka - Yes I know, I know! :-)

I need to find some "free time" (what's that?) to add an AJAX type feature. I think it's a great idea; I'll post on this blog when I get it, but right now I'm over my head with other work and alas this takes a back seat...

Thanks!

re: Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs

Joy Kevin Machado — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:55:17 GMT

How can i use this control to use ajax.

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jikner — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:24:25 GMT

Is there any way to add additional tabs?

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Mehul Bhuva — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:17:05 GMT

Hi Bob,

This webpart of yours is a wonderfull contribution to the Sharepoint community. If we can add a flavour of AJAX into it, it will be the most famous webpart within the moss community...

re: Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs

Mehul Bhuva — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:24:18 GMT

Hi,

I have AJAX enabled the Zone Tab webpart, i have written a step-by-step how-to article on my blogsite, check it out at: http://mehulbhuva.blogspot.com/2009/02/ajaxify-zone-tabs-web-part-in.html

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Tina — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:00:26 GMT

Hi, I was trying to fine the download for SharePoint 2003 and didn't see this. Is it still available? I really need it. Thanks

re: Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs

BobGerman — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:29:51 GMT

Yes - the old version is at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/zonetabs/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1264 ...

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pretty_kiddy — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:49:07 GMT

thank your Excellent job

a css bug for ie 6 ?

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