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Sorry we missed our normal Tuesday blog post. I have been really busy finishing off a project and getting ready for a 3 week engagement that starts next Tuesday. So I figured that a short post was better than no post at all.

Another question was put up on the BOB Forum asking if it was possible to automatically move from tab to tab on an interval. A couple options were thrown out there before mine (all valid options) and I decided that I wanted to go the route and try to keep the functionality all inside of Xcelsius instead of trying to constantly pull data in from a data source.  After about 15 minutes I was able to do this with 2 history components and a tab set.

History Component 1

Increments the value of a counter by 1 every 5 seconds. This tells which tab the tab set should be on.

History Component 2

This deciphers the number that history component 1 generates on 15 second intervals. The tabs are either 1, 2 or 3 all the time. So if history component 1 is at 4, 7, 10, 13 . . ., the tab shown should be number 1 and so on and so forth.

Tab Set

This is bound to the cell that tells it to show a specific tab. As the history components generate numbers, the tab set will move along from 1 to 2 to 3 in a constant loop.

Trick in Action

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