Tabs

1. What is a tab?

A: Tab is a user interface component to user creates to display custom object data.

Tabs can help you in making the views which help user to see the information at a glance.

Example: List of all contacts whose birthday is in this month, list of all opportunities which are in negotiation stage.

There is a limitation on the number of tabs one can have in their organization, Maximum of 25 tabs are allowed in the enterprise edition.

2. How many types of tabs are there?

A: There are four types of tabs.

Custom Tabs

Visual force Tabs

Web Tabs

Lightning Component Tabs

3. What is custom Object tab?

A: Custom Object tabs (available only at an app level and not on subtab apps) display the data of your custom object in a user interface tab. Custom object tabs look and function just like standard tabs.

4. What is Visualforce page Tab?

A: Visualforce tabs display data from a Visualforce page. Visualforce tabs look and function just like standard tabs.

5. What is WebTab?

A: Web Tabs are the tabs from which user goes to the external websites. So use them when you want to divert the user from SFDC to External Systems.

6. What is Lighting component tab?

A: Lightning Page tabs let you add Lightning Pages to the Salesforce1 navigation menu.

Lightning Page tabs don’t work like other custom tabs in Salesforce. Once created, they don’t show up on the All Tabs page when you click the plus icon ( ) that appears to the right of your current tabs. Lightning Page tabs also don’t show up in the Available Tabs list when you customize the tabs for your apps

7. What is default on?

A: Default On: User with this Tab setting will be able to see the Tab for custom object every time he enters in to the SFDC.

8. What is default off?

A: Default Off: User with this Tab setting will NOT be able to see the Tab for a custom object when he enters in to SFDC but has the ability to add this tab to his view by customizing the tab view.

9. What is tab hidden?

A: Tab Hidden: User with this Tab setting will be NOT be able to see the Tab for a custom object and even will NOT be able to bring the tab by customizing the tab view settings.

10. Visibility of the tabs is controlled by?

A: Profiles & Permission Sets.

11. Can we deploy the tab from sandbox to production?

A: yes, it is possible to deploy just a Tab - if production has the expected (75%+) code coverage at the time of deployment.

12. Which permission are by default enabled when we add tab to an application?

A: In Contact Manager, Group, and Professional Editions, when you create a custom object, the “Read,” “Create,” “Edit,” and “Delete” permissions for that object are enabled for all profiles.Permissions for this object are disabled for all profiles by default. You can enable object permissions in permission sets or by editing custom profiles.

13.Same tab can be used in how many application?

A: Based on permissions we can

14. What is default landing tab?

A: This is the tab to be displayed when the user first navigates to this app.

15. How to see the tabs which are not in the Tab Panel?

A: Setup>Create>Tabs.