Highilight customized tab in Epicor form

Epicor ERP 9
1

Hello Experts,

I have an requirement where I need to highlight (something like color the tab) newly tab created ( in ARInvoice Entry ) once the condition is true.

2

Use Row Rules in a Customization.
(info on the Customization Guide)

3

Hi Jose,

I need it by code because the condition is based on the code I made it for
ARInvoice Entry.
Is there any way to do that?

Thanks and Regards,
Vishal Sharma

4

Sure use the notify event to run the custom code

5

Hi Jose,

thank you for the reply.
Actually the thing is I am not sure the way to color the tab I have created.

I googled it and found it can be achieved by using EpiBasePanel but I don’t
know how exactly how it can be achieved.
So far, this is what I tried:

Epicor.Mfg.UI.FrameWork.EpiBasePanel mnpnl = new
Epicor.Mfg.UI.FrameWork.EpiBasePanel();// Declaring a variable as
EpiBasePanel
mnpnl
=((Epicor.Mfg.UI.FrameWork.EpiBasePanel)csm.GetNativeControlReference(“72899bef-6e06-4bac-add3-c6ea438e2f72”));//
//This is new EpiBasePanel Guid.
UltraDockManager udm = mnpnl.baseDockManager;

I am not sure if I am going in a right way!

Thanks and Regards,
Vishal Sharma

6

I hate to revive an old thread, but this one is my exact issue, but without a solution.
I want to bring some visibility to a specific tab when there is a value in a certain field. Let say we want to make the Comments tab “highlighted” when there is a comment.
I have gotten the control with GetNativeControlReference and set UseAppStyling = false. However, I can’t set BackColor or Bold the Font.

Anyone have any luck on this. My issue is specifically E10, but I imagine the code would work in E9 too.

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I dont like color coding, never fair to the color blind :slight_smile: I am sure we can figure it out. But out of curiosity, ask them if instead of color, appending to the tab text a * would work or Comments (new) versus coloring it.

8

Yeah. Bold with asterisks will work too.

Jason Woods
http://LinkedIn.com/in/jasoncwoods

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You can change the appearance of the active tab all day long, but the in-active one… I can’t figure out
x here is the MainPane1

var x = csm.GetNativeControlReference("1dff11bc-3024-4d17-acfc-b7af287e274b");
		var bdm =((Ice.Lib.Framework.EpiDockManagerPanel)x).baseDockManager;
		var j = bdm.ControlPanes;
		j[1].Settings.TabAppearance.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
		var settings = j[1].Settings;
		
		
	
		// The PaneAppearances (ActivePaneAppearance, PaneAppearance) affect
		// the area where the control is sited so in most cases, will be covered
		// by the contained control but for controls that alter their own size
		// (e.g. autosized textbox, etc) part of the background of the pane will 
		// be visible. this area is affected by the 2 mentioned appearances
		settings.ActivePaneAppearance.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
	
		// The following affect the appearance of the respective item when the
		// associated pane is the active pane. to determine which is the active
		// pane, you can use the dock manager's 'ActivePane' property
		settings.ActiveSlidingGroupAppearance.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
		settings.ActiveTabAppearance.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
		settings.ActiveTabAppearance.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
	
	
		// The 'HotTracking' appearances properties affect how the respective areas
		// appear when the mouse is over the associate element
		//
	
		// This will affect how the caption area appears when the mouse is moved
		// over the caption area
		settings.HotTrackingCaptionAppearance.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
	
		// The following does the same but for the sliding group buttons in a 
		// 'SlidingGroup' style group pane
		settings.HotTrackingSlidingGroupAppearance.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
	
		// The following affects the appearance of the tab under the mouse
		settings.HotTrackingTabAppearance.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
	
		// The following appearance properties are the default properties
		// for the respective items when they are not active and the mouse
		// is not over the item
		
		// PaneAppearance is the default appearance for the pane content area 
		// (the area containing a control or other panes),
		settings.PaneAppearance.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
	
		// SlidingGroupAppearance is the default appearance for a sliding group 
		// button
		
	
		// TabAppearance is the default appearance for tabs - both those
		// displayed for items grouped together in a 'TabGroup' style 
		// DockableGroupPane and for the tab used to represent an unpinned
		// DockableControlPane in the UnpinnedTabArea
		settings.TabAppearance.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
		settings.TabAppearance.BackColor2 = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
		
	
		// The 'CaptionAppearance' affects the appearance of all panes but
		// can be overriden for the active control by changing the
		// 'ActiveCaptionAppearance' property.
		settings.CaptionAppearance.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
		settings.CaptionAppearance.BackColor2 = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
		
		settings.CaptionAppearance.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
	
	
		// The 'Appearance' property is the default appearance for the caption,
		// tab, sliding group and pane area. Setting properties on the
		// 'Appearance' property will affect all those areas unless overriden
		// at a lower level - i.e. via one of the other appearance properties
		// listed above
		settings.Appearance.BorderColor3DBase = System.Drawing.Color.Red;

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