Make it possible to style tabs in Visual Analytics Reports

[FredrikHansson]

Our users are often not very impressed with the reports me and my colleagues make for them. The reason is that they only see the first tab of the report. The tabs are so subtile that the users don't even see them. It's also hard to see which tab is selected.

Please make it possible to style the tabs so that we can make them "pop" more.

Picture to show what I mean:

Picture of "invisible" tabs in a VA report

[SDan]

Yes please.

Have a look at Nielsens Usability Heuristics #4: Consistency and standards.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/

Tab pattern have been around forever, and in SAS there is not even a hand icon indicating it's clickable when hovering.

[Stu_SAS]

Hey @FredrikHansson! Thanks for entering this feature request. We do have future plans for being able to modify and format all text in Visual Analytics, and tabs will be included in this. From your screenshot, it looks like you're using the SDK or perhaps a report package rather than the Visual Analytics application. We have made changes starting in 2023.06 to Visual Analytics to improve performance and made some small styling changes. Can you let me know which version you're using, and if you are using the SDK or Report Packages to display your reports? 

 

[FredrikHansson]

Hi @Stu!

That's good news! I can see in your animation that there is a hand on mouse-over. That's great, and making it possible to style the text will be a game changer!

Yes, my screen snippet is from a report package. When we start letting users in to VA later this year, they will be directed to reports using the parameters reportViewOnly=true and reportContextBar=false. So the reports will appear very similar to the report package.

We are currently using Long-Term Support 2024.03. Our plan is to stick with LTS-releases.

Are you willing to guess when we can expect to be able to style tabs in a LTS release?