How are you handling tabbed forms with child record attachments?

Hello All,
I am having serious issues with the inability to view attachments on tabbed forms. This is a big problem for us and I was wondering how you are handling this situation - or if you are. We have apps with many fields that we separate by sections using tabs and our users are finding this very useful. The bad part of using tabbed forms are the actions (which we have figured out with a work around) but mostly the attachments. We have several apps that allow for multiple attachments (child records) and in a tabbed form, these attachments are not accessible. I feel the detail view is too cumbersome and not easy for the users to view all data, but that seems to be the way to make the attachments viewable.

In one app, I did make a view where only those records with attachments show up and I have a view from there that is the detail view where the buttons are to view the attachments.

In my latest app, this will not work. What else are y’all doing to handle child record attachments so they are viewable when editing a record that is on a form that uses tabs? Thank you in advance.

You may find this useful:

[Tabs in Detail Views](https://community.appsheet.com/t/tabs-in-detail-views/20245) Tips & Tricks ?

To make your Detail Views have tabs, similar to a how a Form view can have them, follow these steps: Either create slices for each “tab” of your table, and their corresponding detail views, or just create detail views with different column order settings. Create a dashboard view that holds all of the above detail views. Make sure to select “Use tabs in mobile view” Create an action to navigate to this Dashboard view for a specific row LINKTOROW([key column] , “dashboard view”) Set the Row Sel…

Also, this:

[Tabs on detail view](https://community.appsheet.com/t/tabs-on-detail-view/21226) Feature Requests

Tabs in detail view using show collumns, the same way it works with forms. I’ve done an workaround with an Enum collumn, quick edit on detail view enabled and show_if based on this collumn, but its kind of messy.

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