Tim,

Which control on which platform are you using?

This did not paste very well.  Not sure you can help but this is the code to get at a control that is a pre-defined tab and has a property for it on the BasePanel.  I added another tab after this one that I need to get at.  If I could reference it by index, that would work but have no idea how to do that.

Epicor.Mfg.UI.App.HelpDeskEntry.Panels.MainPanel jp = new MainPanel();

UltraDockManager udm = jp.caseEntryPanel1.caseSheetPanel1.baseDockManager;

Epicor.Mfg.UI.FrameWork.EpiBasePanel qq = jp.caseEntryPanel1.caseSheetPanel1.contactsListPanel1;

DockableControlPane dcc = udm.PaneFromControl(qq);

dcc.Activate();

Tim,

You should be able to do that by setting the IsSelectedTab property of the DockableControlPane to true.

Try something like this:

udm.ControlPanes[udm.ControlPanes.Count - 1].IsSelectedTab = true;

Let me know if that works for you.

Tim,

Did that suggestion work for you?

Unfortunately, no.  I believe I need to get at the Activate() method for the tab.  Because these are Epicor screens and I can't see how the panel is wired up to the screen, this is not a very simple problem.  For now, I am moving on and will revisit this after I get the rest of the screen changes done.

Thank you for your feedback.

Tim, I am 6 years late, but perhaps this will help someone else.

To do this, I grabbed the MainDockPanel of the form via csm. Then I was able to use ActivateSheet(name of sheet) to focus. Note this will not work in the InitializeCode since apparently the panel isnt configured yet, but anytime from OnLoad on should work. Also note, it handles multiple layers, in my case this MassEntry tab is 3 deep from the MainDockPanel

Example:

var mdp =(Erp.UI.App.SelectSerialNumbersEntry.MainDockPanel) csm.GetNativeControlReference("29b56335-57d8-4247-9867-e2fcb166cc2c");
mdp.ActivateSheet("MassEntry");