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I am working on tweaking Civi for an installation for a client that has a good amount of custom data. Is there any way to change the order of tabs and inline field areas in the primary forms used by Civi?

Thanks,
Steve

I guess I am missing something, can you tell me where to go to change weights...I am using Civi 2.0 beta for this installation and I must just be reading over it.

Thanks,
Steve

Right, I get that. But is there any way to change its order with the existing tabs.

Thanks,
Steve

Any change that changing the order of existing (ie not custom) tabs can be added as a feature? Would be nice!

OK - finally got around to working on this, but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to change in Tabbed.tpl or what I would hack in Tabbed.php.

I see that this is what is relevant in Tabbed.tpl:

{foreach from=$allTabs key=tabName item=tabValue}
  <div id="{$tabValue.id}" dojoType="dojox.layout.ContentPane" href="{$tabValue.url}" title="{$tabValue.title}"
class ="tundra" {if $tabValue.id eq $selectedChild} selected="true"{/if} style="overflow: auto; width: 100%; height:100%;"></div>
{/foreach}
But you can't really change the order there, because the order is passed from Tabbed.php. When I look at Tabbed.php, I can see where weights are set for existing tabs. But I can't see how to change the order of those tabs without hacking Tabbed.php - is there supposed to be a way to do it by editing Tabbed.tpl? Doesn't seem like PHP belongs in .tpl so I can't see how I'd do it.

Ultimately, I'd like to figure out how to
a) change the order of existing, default CiviCRM tabs, and
b) change the order in such a way that I can mix custom tabs with existing CiviCRM tabs, not just have them appended at the end.

If anyone has any specific advice for how to do that, please share. Ultimately, I do think that tab order should be implemented as a setting in the CiviCRM web interface - mad haxxor skillz shouldn't be necessary for something so basic and probably so commonly desired!