Dynamic tabs in a DeskI report

Does anyone have experience dynamically creating tabs in a Deski report? For example, we would like to show sales by store where each store has its own tab. We would like a tab to be created and visible only when the store has data that is returned from the query. We are trying to accomplish this via VBA. We have successfully done this in Excel using VBA but can't seem to find the matching tab.visible property in BO Deski VBA. We would rather not hard-code filters for each tab as the list of stores changes as the criteria for the query (ie. year/quarter) changes.
Thanks for any help you can provide.

Hi Guillermo,
Welcome to SDN.
You can have dynamic tabs by placing the <htmlb:tabStripItem> in a loop in the layout:
<% loop at tabstrip_tab. %>
<htmlb:tabStripItem index="<%=tabstrip_tab-index%>" etc. />
<% endloop. %>
Where tabstrip_tab contains the details of the tabstrip items.
Regards,
Patrick.

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