Tabs

A tab is a user-interface element that, when clicked on, displays the record data on a page specific to that object.

Hiding and showing tabs

To customize your personal tab settings, navigate to Your Name | My Settings | Display & Layout | Customize My Tabs. Now, choose the tabs that will get displayed in each of your apps by moving the tab name between the Available Tabs and Selected Tabs sections, and click on Save. The following screenshot shows you the section of tabs for the Sales app:

Hiding and showing tabs

To customize the tab settings of your users, navigate to Setup | Manage Users | Profiles. Now, select a profile and click on Edit. Scroll down to the Tab Settings section of the page, as shown in the following screenshot:

Hiding and showing tabs

Standard tabs

Salesforce provides tabs for each of the standard objects that are provided in the application when you sign up. For example, there are standard tabs for Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, and so on.

Standard tabs

Note

The visibility of the tab depends on the setting on the Tab Display setting for the app.

Custom tabs

You can create three different types of custom tabs: Custom Object Tabs, Web Tabs, and Visualforce Tabs.

Custom Object Tabs allow you to create, read, update, and delete the data records in your custom objects. Web Tabs display any web URL in a tab within your Salesforce application. Visualforce Tabs display custom user-interface pages created using Visualforce.

Bear the following in mind when creating custom tabs:

  • The text displayed on the custom tab is set using the Plural Label of the custom object, which is entered when creating the custom object. If the tab text needs to be changed, this can be done by changing the Plural Label stored on the custom object.
  • Salesforce.com recommends that you select the Append tab for users' existing personal customizations checkbox. This benefits your users, as they will automatically be presented with the new tab and can immediately access the corresponding functionality without having to first customize their personal settings themselves.
  • It is recommended that you do not show tabs—by setting appropriate permissions—so that the users in your organization cannot see any of your changes until you are ready to make them available.
  • You can create up to 25 custom tabs in the Enterprise Edition and as many as you require in the Unlimited and Performance Editions.

To create custom tabs for a custom object, navigate to Setup | Create | Tabs. Now, select the appropriate tab type and/or object from the available selections, as shown in the following screenshot:

Custom tabs
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