Remember Current Tab , string, portlet url, create render url, liferay process, liferay action, liferay name, search browse, action

Pascal Wasem	:	Hi!
		I have some tabs in my jsp-file!
		Like this:
		As you can see the first tab contains a form with an input box the second one a link! Both create an actionUrl!
		The Problem: If I click the link in the second tab (->actionUrl), the second tab becomes unselected!
		How to remember which tab was selected before the request?
		By the way there ANY (detailed) documentation about how to use the liferay taglibs?
		Thank you!
		Best regards, Pascal
Mazhar Anwar	:	You can get last selected tab in you jsp from request parameter as follows,
		<% String tabs1 = ParamUtil.getString(request, "tabs1", "Search");%>
		And You need to create instance of PortletURL,
		PortletURL portletURL = renderResponse.createRenderURL(); portletURL.setWindowState(WindowState.MAXIMIZED); portletURL.setParameter("tabs1", tabs1);
		AND
		<liferay-ui:tabs names="names="Search,Browse" url="<%= portletURL.toString() %>" />
		OR
		<portlet:actionURL name="SelectProcess"> <portlet:param name="process" value="<%= someValue %>"/> <portlet:param name="tabs1" value="<%=tabs1 %>" />; </portlet:actionURL>"
		For more details about Tabs taglibs you can explore the enterprise admin porlet in portal source. You will find it in portal/portal-web/docroot/html/portlet/enterprise_admin.
		HTH... Regards, Mazhar
Pascal Wasem	:	Hi Mazhar,
		Thank you for your response! But this only helped me partially. Althoug I think I am on the right way.
		I'am using this now in my jsp:
		The problem is that even if I forward the tabs1-param in the action url it ALWAYS remains "Search".
		It seems like the current selected tab is not stored in tabs1?
		Although setting it to "Browse" in my Portlet-Class works fine!
		What am I missing! Has it sth to do with param, url or refresh in <liferay-ui:tabs> ?
		Thanks!
		Best, Pascal
Sandeep Nair	:	Hi,
		Use this along with the above changes
		<liferay-ui:tabs names="Search,Browse" param="tabs1" refresh="<%= false %>">
		And in both the action pass the following parameter
		<portlet:param name="tabs1" value="Search" /> in the first
		and <portlet:param name="tabs1" value="Browse" /> in second
		Regards Sandeep
Pascal Wasem	:	Thanks Sandeep, that did it!
Gourab Kar	:	ok everybody out there... hi and greetings.
		At last I solved the problem. I had to get inside liferay-UI:tabs tld's init jsp.
		what we all did was <liferay-ui:tabs names="tabs1, tabs2" //"Skills,Notification" in my case param="tab" url="<someURL>" />
		but we are missing a very highly critical info in tabs tag- that is 'value' or 'values'. the param passes the tab string that we get as a string along with default value, but the value attribute is the main variable that defines the desired tab.
		if we don't pass anything as value, then for every inner rendering/ request will make the default tab active.
		so try this: <liferay-ui:tabs names="tabs1, tabs2" //"Skills,Notification" in my case param="tab" url="<someURL>" value="tab1" //this will always keep tab1 active />
		and this one: <liferay-ui:tabs names="tabs1, tabs2" //"Skills,Notification" in my case param="tab" url="<someURL>" value="tab2" //this will always keep tabs2 active />
		and finally this one: <liferay-ui:tabs names="tabs1, tabs2" //"Skills,Notification" in my case param="tab" url="<someURL>" value="<%=currentTab%>" /> //this will always keep the current value you are getting on tab
		My sincere thanks to sandeep nair who worked with me on this and my senior Tarun who guided me.
Anders Olme	:	How do you set the
		<liferay-ui:tabs names="tabs1, tabs2" //"Skills,Notification" in my case param="tab" url="<someURL>" value="<%=currentTab%>" />
		currentTab variable to to the correct value (or is it some kind of liferay system variable)?
		Brg Anders Olme
Gourab Kar	:	Yes values is a liferay's system parameter(variable) and <%=currentTab%> is the jsp scriptlet.
		So for the first time when this portlet is loaded currentTab at the beginning will be null so the param will pass the initial value.
		For every next iteration the currentTab will be what is set from the respective jsps as setAttribute
		Eg: request.setAttribute("tab", <value of the tab that you want to pass>)
		And this is received in another jsp, especially the init jsp as
		currentTab = getAttribute("tab");
		<liferay-ui:tabs value=<%currentTab%>...>
Anders Olme	:	Oki, thanks for the answer!
		BRG Anders Olme