Screens as tabs
Every back office screen you open gets a tab above the page, so you can go back and forth between them. Switching tabs, closing one with ✕, Close others, the limit of 12, and what the tabs remember.
On this page
Each screen you open from the menu gets its own tab in a row above the page, as a web browser does. Click a tab to go back to that screen. You can keep, for example, Items, Categories and Sales open at once, and move between them in one click.
The row of tabs, part by part
Sales
Business days, not calendar days — a late-night sale counts against the night it was made.
- A tab: the name of a screen you opened. Click it to go back to it, as you left it. ✕ after its name closes it.
- The tab on show: drawn white, with a coloured line under it. It is the screen below.
- ✕: closes that tab.
- Close others: closes every tab except the one on show. It appears once more than one tab is open.
- 3/12: how many tabs are open, of the twelve the row can hold.
Open, switch and close
- Open: click a screen in the menu. If it already has a tab, that tab comes on show; otherwise a new tab is added at the right end.
- Switch: click a tab.
- Close one: click ✕ on it, or click it with the mouse wheel (the middle button), as in a browser. Closing the tab on show opens the tab beside it, or the Dashboard when none is left.
- Close all but one: on the tab you want to keep, click Close others.
Tab names
A tab is named as the menu names its screen: Items, Outlets, Sales. A screen opened from inside another one is named for what it shows: one stock item's card is Stock card 12, a new promotion is New promotion, one member's page is Member 123. Point at a tab to read a long name in full.
Twelve tabs at most
The row holds twelve tabs. Opening a thirteenth closes the oldest one, never the one you are opening. When the tabs do not fit the width of the window, the row scrolls sideways: turn the mouse wheel over it, or swipe it. The tab on show is always brought into view.
What the tabs remember
- In this browser tab, the tabs survive a reload of the page.
- Each person and each subscription has its own row: switching subscription shows that subscription's tabs.
- A new browser tab or window starts its own row. Closing the browser forgets the tabs.