Mini-Tab Layout

Mini-Tabs are a layout container that uses a tabbed container to display multiple visualizations and other assets in the same screen real estate. The container features tabs; a single asset can be added to each tab, and a single tab can be displayed at any one time.

You can display tabs manually, by clicking on the required tab; or conditionally, by defining actions based on dynamic PQL expressions together with Slicer Actions.

• Click here to learn about conditional display for mini-tabs

Note: This feature is not available in the Community Edition.

Add Mini-Tabs

To add a mini-tab container to the slide, click the mini-tab button from the canvas menu (red arrow below). Click anywhere on the slide to place the container there.

Add and Remove Assets from Mini-Tabs

To add an item to one of the tabs, drag the required visual or asset onto the required tab.

To move the asset from the mini-tab container to somewhere else on the canvas, drag it or select it and use the clipboard tools (cut, copy, or paste) from the Present ribbon or right-click context menu.

To delete an asset from the container, right-click on it and select Delete Tab Content from the context menu. Alternatively, right-click on the mini-tabs and click Delete Tab to remove the selected tab and its content.

Edit Mini-Tabs

Mini-Tab Context Menu

To access the mini-tab context menu:

• Right-click the borders of the mini-tab container (green highlight below).
• Right-click a visual inside the mini-tab. In this case, the mini-tab context menu is shown inside a Mini-Tab sub-menu.

Tip: In addition to the mini-tab items, you can also access other items from the context menu. Where the border is selected, this includes the Panel Settings (orange arrow above) which opens the Formatting Panel.

Function	Description
Add New Tab	By default, the mini-tab container has two tabs. Click this option to add another tab. Note that the new tab is added after any existing tabs by default, you need to Edit the tabs to change its position. Note: When you add more tabs to the panel than you can see, left and right arrows are added (purple arrows) to allow you to navigate to tabs that are shown but cannot be seen.
Delete Tab	Delete the currently selected tab.
Delete Tab Content	Delete the content item in the currently selected tab.
Edit Tabs	Open the Edit Tabs panel and edit the settings for the mini-tab container. You can use this panel to change the name of the mini-tab container, add, remove, and move tabs, change the tab name, and indicate whether to show an icon.
Tabs Position	Display the tabs at the Top or Bottom of the container, or select Hidden to hide the tabs. If you select Hidden, you should select which tab to show using the Select Tab option. You can, alternatively, decide which hidden tab to show based on your runtime slicer selections. For more information, see Conditional Display for Mini-Tabs.
Select Tab	Only shown if one or more tabs are hidden. Use this option to indicate which tab to show at runtime.

Edit Tabs

Open the Edit Tabs panel to edit the settings for the mini-tab container.

Mini-Tab Settings

Name: Change the name of the mini-tab container.

Tab List

Tab List: Add and remove tabs, and change the order of the tabs.

Tab Settings

• Name: Change the name of the given tab.
• Appearance: Show the tab name or icon.

Tabs Position

Display the tabs at the top or bottom of the container, or hide the tabs. If the tabs are hidden, a new Select Tab option will appear on the context menu; use this to choose which tab to display before launching the presentation at runtime.

If tabs are hidden, you will not be able to change the display at runtime. Instead, you'll need to set up conditional display; in this case the mini-tabs display is driven by a slicer selection.

The tabs position can be set from both the mini-tabs context menu, and the Component ribbon.

• Click here to learn about conditional display for mini-tabs

Mini-Tab Settings

When the mini-tab is selected, various formatting options will be enabled from the Component ribbon. You can edit the panels and the background color. You can also adjust the mini-tab settings (red highlight below):

• Background: change the color of the tabs.
• Font: set the font type, size, emphasis, and color for the tab labels.
• Border Type: set the border for the tabs.
  • Full Box: display a border around the entire visual and its tab.
  • Line Only: display only a line at the bottom of the visual.
  • None: disable the border.
• Border: set the border color.
• Stroke: adjust the border width.
• Tabs Position: as described above, set the position of the tabs to the top or bottom of the container.

Mini-Tabs at Runtime

When the presentation is launched at runtime, you can click through the tabs in the mini-tabs container as required: