Set the Default Subtab for Details Pages

Set any subtab as the default tab on a custom (company-defined) details page of standard and custom objects.

This default subtab is the tab that your users first see when navigating to a record's details page from the landing page, workspace, or from another object. You can also reorder and remove any subtabs on the details page. However, you can't remove a subtab that has been configured as the default subtab for a page layout.

For example, a sales representative who's currently assigned to work on the contacts of an account on a daily basis can have the Contacts tab in focus and reordered to be the top-most tab when navigating to the account details.

Set the Default Subtab

To set a subtab as the default tab of an object's custom details page:

1. In Application Composer, expand the object whose custom page layout you want to edit, and then click the Pages node.

2. On the Application Pages tab, navigate to the Details Page Layouts section, and click the custom page layout whose default subtab you want to configure.

3. On the selected custom layout page, click the edit icon next to the Default Subtab field.

   The Edit Default Subtab dialog opens.

4. From the Default Subtab drop-down list, select a subtab.

5. Click OK.

   The default subtab changes to the selected subtab.

6. To reorder subtabs and to choose which subtabs you want to display on the object's details page using the Configure Subtabs dialog, click the Hide, Show, or Reorder Subtabs icon. For more information, see Create and Reorder Subtabs in Application Details Pages.

Note: The subtab that's selected as the default tab can't be removed from the list of Selected Subtabs while configuring the subtabs on the Configure Subtabs dialog. You must deselect the subtab as the default tab before removing it from the Selected Subtabs list.

Default Subtabs and Direct Page Links

Direct page links are links that point to a specific record. You can add such a link to any e-mail, report, or user interface page. Some objects support linking directly to a subtab. If you configure a default subtab, however, then note that the default subtab always takes precedence over any subtab included in a direct page link. This means that when a user clicks a direct page link, any subtab included in that link is ignored in favor of the default subtab configured for the page.