Grouping Tabs in Tableau - tableau-api

I have a Tableau report with about 30 tabs in.
I'd like to group them up into 4/5 categories to make it easier to navigate. Preferably with folders or a menu.
I can not see any obvious way of doing this and a few searches suggests that this is a feature Tableau have not included, which surprises me since I would have thought they would be all about making data presentable!
Does anyone know of a way to do this?
Thanks.

Grouping tabs would appear to be a feature request (here's an Idea in the Tableau Community for this functionality)
As a more general point, having a complex workbook with that many tabs can potentially lead to performance issues, so it might be worth investigating whether the workbook can be split into smaller parts.

As of Tableau 9.3, there is no explicit feature for grouping worksheet (tabs) in a workbook. But there are a couple of other features that can help you keep large workbooks organized.
You can assign colors to tabs (via a right click menu) and of course move them around to whatever order and color scheme makes sense to you. The slide sorter view is helpful for organizing tabs.
You can also hide worksheets to reduce clutter (again via right click). That is useful for hiding views that only exist to be included in some dashboards. (You can only hide a worksheet if it appears on at least one dashboard)

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Eclipse RCP open view on certain position

Assume that I have three views A,B,C. How can I assure that they will be always opened in that given order. At the moment I have a problem that if B,C are open and A closed, after opening A it is appended at the end. So I have B,C,A visible.
to open a new view I use following method:
IWorkbenchPage.showView(viewId, secondardId, IWorkbenchPage.VIEW_ACTIVATE);
It seems that existing placeholders for those views are ignored.
The short answer is: rather not possible.
The Eclipse workbench with its background as an IDE leaves the control over which part is shown how and where mostly with the user and does not give you full programmatic control over the workbench parts. While I think this policy is a good fit for IDEs, some RCP apps may have reason to be more restrictive with their users.
However, you might get away with a hack and first close all views in question (if they are open) and then open them in the desired order. But this will likely cause flicker and you also may loose state in the opened views (depending on how complete they save and restore their state).
A rather drastic approach - but it might work from a technical POV - are fixed views and/or perspectives
If it is important to have those views in a specific order, why don't you merge them into one?

how to change eclipse's editor to show or edit code in multiple columns?

My laptop and desktop monitors are wider than they are tall. When I'm looking at code, from half to 2/3 of the screen is empty with no code. This is silly.
I'd like to take a look at how to extend eclipse's editor to show data in multiple columns.
If anyone has any idea regarding what api I should lookup or any other resources, please point them out.
Thanks
I don't know if one viewer can display code in multiple columns, but you can split a view for the same file (Window -> New editor).
That way, you can see more of your code, each tab using that horizontal space you have so much on your screen.
For different files, you can put different editor side-to-side:
That will give:
In Eclipse 2018-12 (4.10) there is the "Window/Editor/Toggle split editor vertical" menu option which does exactly what you need. There is also Toggle split editor horizontal option there.

How to make WinCVS show only Unmodified files

I'm using WinCvs 2.0.0.2 (Build 2).
How can I make it filter, to show only files that are:
known to CVS
not modified
Things I've tried
Filters
I've looked at all the filters at the top in the toolbar, and I can't see how any combination of these could show only unchanged files:
Show All Commitable Files Only
Show Changed Files Only
Show Added Files Only
Show Removed Files Only
Show Conflict Files Only
Show Missing Only
Hide Any Missing
Show Unknown Only
Hide Amy Unknown
Show Any Ignored
Filter Bar
I've also tried enabling the Filter Bar, to filter on the value in the State column.
I had thought this was the most promising approach, but the problem is that I can't work out how to make this filter to only show rows where the State value is empty.
The help in WinCvs's "Select State Filter" dialog is rather content-free:
Filter Selection dialog box
The dialog options allow you to select the filter value from any of the previously used ones.
I've googled for tips on the Filter Bar, and not spotted any useful tips on how to use this to exclude values. I've read the CvsGui FAQ, and can't see any explanation of more advanced use of the Filter Bar.
Unfortunately, the answer is really simple: No, this not possible.
This: http://cvsgui.sourceforge.net/newfaq.htm#filters_howto is really all there is.
What is your use case, though?
This Facility is not available in WINCVS. It is available only in eclipse plugin.

Eclipse PDT Differentiating file name tabs for MVC?

When working with MVC in Eclipse you might often have a model, view, and controller all with the same name open at the same time. When looking at each of the file tabs, you won't always know which is which and have to click through them, which can be quite a hassle sometimes. I've heard of being able to color code files based on the path in some editors. For example, tabs with path model could be set as green, path controller set as yellow, etc. Is this possible in Eclipse, or is there a plugin for something like this? If not, what do you do to more easily differentiate between the tabs? I've heard of people always opening a MVC set in a certain order. So you'll know the leftmost tab is the controller, the right most is the view, etc. However, that must also mean you need to open all 3 files each time. Any better tips or tricks?
Another thing about the file tabs that can be annoying is that when you have more files that can't fit in one line, eclipse pushes off to an arrow which you have to click to see the rest. It seems to be random which tabs get pushed off there, maybe the least used ones, I have no idea... This coupled with the problem above gets kind of annoying. I was trying to find a way to disable this and just show tabs that can't fit in one line to show up on a second line, but surprisingly couldn't find such an option (then again you also can't wordwrap without a plugin).
Hopefully there are some solutions to these two problems. Thanks.
Maybe this can be helpful
http://www.dipherence.com/2011/03/20/full-coloured-eclipse-navigator-plug-in/
With the latest version of Eclipse (Kepler 4.3.1, build M20130911-1000) when two or more files with the same base name are opened, tab will show also the parent directory name.

Eclipse: Nested Editor Tabs?

Is anyone aware of any method (or external plugin) that would allow for nested editor tabs? It would be nice to be able to group related open files into their own "master" tabs, but I'm not sure if this is even possible. Any ideas?
This is totally non-obvious, and I discovered it by accident, but...
If you click on a tab and start dragging it downwards, once you get more than half-way down the editor pane, a horizontal line will appear. Let go, and now you'll have two different editor panes, each with tabs of documents. Now you can drag tabs up and down between the two panes to see different documents at the same time.
I think that's as close as you can get.
I think the best you can currently do is "Window->New Window" and then use each new window as a separate "tab" of related editors. Not exactly ideal, I admit.
It's a cool idea though, especially if you could have shortcuts or something that open groups of editors with a single command.
This definitely isn't possible in the current RCP. You might be able to construct an editor component which created a CTabFolder and delegated to other editor components, but I'm not sure how well that would work.
There are Perspectives in Eclipse that you might use to achieve something close, they are more global things though...
But I agree with you, I would like this feature as well! This would be also very useful when editing many files that have the same name but come from different packages, because now it's a mess >_<
For me the utility of such a feature is to reduce context switching time. I'm working on project A, have lots of editors open, now I need to drop that and work on project B. I want to keep all the editors open associated with project A but hide them while I work on B. When I'm done with B, I can pick up right where I left off in A without having to find and open all those A files again; I can even leave them unsaved indefinitely, since Juno never crashes!! :)
I have used the New Window feature, and it's great, but the new window needs a bunch of configuration (closing Views I don't need, moving stuff around to where I want it, opening Views I had open in the old window, and so on) before I can get to work. It also uses a lot more memory than a simple tab group would since it seems to be a complete new copy of Eclipse.
The split-window feature is great and I use it all the time. It is indeed tab groups, and if there were a way to hide a tab group, and for each tab group to have its own tab list (the thing you get when you click ">>5" so you can see editors you have open that don't fit in the tab header), it would totally fill the bill.