Eliminating the tabsetup Macro

If tabsetup is not available, how can we emulate the page layout to simulate the tab method of displaying content. 

The tabsetup macro is responsible for making the horizontal set of tabs on SWE and Topic pages in SWEHB. 

Tabsetup can have up to 24 tabs with content distributed in a collection of Div macros in the tabsetup body. In order to eliminate the macro it will be necessary to reorganize the current content. 

Multiple Approaches

1. Modified tab approach using Expand Macro in a single page

This approach involves using a column of buttons corresponding to the existing tabs. Each item in the column is an expand macro that houses the content of a div. See the page SWE-961 Coding Standards.  

2. Modified tab approach using links to child pages containing div content

In this approach, the Requirements Div becomes the parent page. Each of the other Divs become a child page. The names of the child pages contain a key as to the type of content they hold.

Both the parent and the child pages contain a 1 row table of links to all the other pages with the look and feel of the original tabsetup. Each page is color coded in the table so the viewer know what tab they are reading. 

In this example the pages are: 

• SWE-961 Coding Standards - Requirements
  • SWE-961 Coding Standards - Rationale
  • SWE-961 Coding Standards - Guidance
  • SWE-961 Coding Standards - Small Projects
  • SWE-961 Coding Standards - Resources
  • SWE-961 Coding Standards - Lessons Learned
  • SWE-961 Coding Standards - Software Assurance

Considerations

For each of the approaches, there are a variety of additional changes that would have to be considered in order to fully implement the approach some of those considerations are listed below. When an approach is selected, a full plan for implementation will need to be put together.