Custom field group tabs ordering / positioning

[jjnxpct]

I would like the tabs that are added to items based on custom field groups (Articles, Users, and other components that use custom fields) to appear after the first tab, or possibly even before all other tabs. Currently, I believe we have no control over where these tabs are placed. I'm not sure where this setting would need to be configured, though...

[jjnxpct]

I managed to create my own plugin (with some or rather a lot help of chatGTP) that can do this for my sites now. When workin on this there was a bit of a struggle to get the 'active' state of a tab correctly. Joomla seems to remember the tab state on an individual item. But it default to the first Joomla tab. Moving tabs in front of the default first tab still has the default Joomla tab active when there is no 'remembered' tab state. So moving the Custom Files Group tabs to the front, before the first default tab does not activate the first tab by default.

Moving the Custom Group Fields tabs just after the first default Joomla tab does work now for me. So I happy with thsa for now.

But still, maybe an option Joomla to do this would be nice / better. The plugin I created uses javascript to swap around tabs. It works but it's not the best solution.

[brianteeman]

i did this myself with a simple layout override the other day. This blog post explains how https://www.dr-menzel-it.de/blog/override-challenge-beitrag-einreichen-im-frontend

[jjnxpct]

That looks like a lot less work then creating a plugin ;-) I will give it a try.
But still, it would be a nice feature to have natively in Joomla I think.