List Counts in tabs

[bwalk]

Hello AwareIM Users,
I am brand new to this forum and rather (no very) new to AwareIM.
I would like to show the counts of list in the tabs section. I have attached a screenshot of what I'm after.
Basically I have pictures and documents for any given issue. I would like to show the quantity of each in the appropriate tab.
Is this even possible? Currently I have the counts showing in the parent form area but that is not very appealing.
Any direction would be appreciated.
Thanks

[rbross]

You can display the record count at the bottom of the query. See screenshots

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[bwalk]

rbross, thanks for the reply and this information is good to know.
I am however trying to get those counts into the tabs so a user will not need to scroll down to the bottom of the form to see the count.
Hoping someone will have a solution. I have tried using tags such as <<BO.count>> and many variations of that but have not succeeded with that approach.
Thanks again for posting.

[ACDC]

You can do this by setting the Display Badge on the form and then using your Count attribute in the setup of the badge.

On a closer look the badge is not available on references, only the main form tab

[bwalk]

Thanks ACDC, I will look into this solution.

[BLOMASKY]

What you are asking for is to have the "parent" keep count of how many children records. So in each Issue BO you would like to know the # of pictures and documents.

Aware can do the heavy lifting for you and the plus is you can then conditionally display or ?? depending on the # of records. To do this:

1) Create 2 new attributes in the Issues BO. NoOfPictures and NoOfDocuments (set them both to calculated so no one can ever edit them)
2) Create 2 new rules in the Issues BO to always update this For example for the pictures:
IF Pictures WAS ADDED TO Issues.ob_Pictures THEN INCREASE Issues.noOfPictures BY 1
IF Pictures WAS REMOVED FROM Issues.ob_Pictures then REDUCE Issues.noOfPictures BY 1

There are other ways to do the rules, by using a COUNT Function. So this is just one way to write the logic, but you now have 2 fields you can use to display any fancy way you want. (i.e. using a HTML cell to customize the display).

Bruce

[bwalk]

Hello Bruce, thanks for your reply.
This is exactly what I currently have, 2 attributes holding the # of Pics and Docs using rules to populate them when either a pic or doc is added/deleted.
And I'm showing these in the parent form just above the tab section of the pics/docs.
If I have to live with these attributes staying in the parent I guess I can but I think it would be extremely nice and professional looking to have these in the tabs themselves.
IE Pictures(2) Documents(3) etc.
Thanks again for the post.

[customaware]

Bill would like a Badge to show in each Tab with the count.

As ACDC advised.... that is not possible on a Reference Tab. Only on a Main Tab

[bwalk]

Ah, OK, I did not understand the difference between 'Ref' tab and 'Main' tab but I get it now.
So I will re-arrange what I have into something more appealing and work with that.
Thanks for all the replies!
Bill

[bwalk]

I have decided to alter my form to utilize the suggestion of form tabs and not reference tabs.
I like it, nice clean, looks good.
Thanks a lot.

[customaware]

Good one Bill.