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Tip: Finding the id of a custom tab
I needed to add some fields to a custom tab that was defined in the UI (Setup > Subtabs)
When creating the nlobjField I COULD NOT figure out what the ID was of the tab I wanted to place them on so I created a tab from code with a very unique name, then searched the source code for it. From there I was able to find the tab ids.
In case anyone every needs to do this, try searching the source for: "ShowHideTab"
You should find a bunch of (somewhat nasty) inline script code and by snooping around you can find the tab id, in my case it was 'custom26'
Steve Klett | Senior Developer
NetValue Technology
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