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[Rhys]

I'm trying to make a lightweight emergency response form for when the IT department decides to start upgrading our database at the office.

What I have is three tabs, one each for service, supplies, and customer care. In my perfect world, certain fields would be 'shared' across the tabs, such as customer account number, contact name, etc.

I know I can't re-use the same variable name in different tabs, but I'm wondering if there's a way to get the account number entered in the service tab to carry over into the supplies tab.

From what little I understand about AHK GUI stuff, I don't think it is possible without some kind of Gui, Submit function that would take the submitted variable from one tab and add it as the default value to the GUI line for the control on the other tab...

Test scenario and code:

Customer calls in for service and supplies, agent enters account number and service reason, submits it, then clicks the supplies tab, and enters just the supply item as account number is pre-populated.

[engunneer]

you are right that you should move "shared" fields outside the tabs. It is bad interaction design to make the user refill them in, and getting the data to propagate between the tabs is more work than changing the layout.
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[daniel2]