Programmat​ically reading controls in a Tab Control

I can use Property Nodes to read controls on a front panel, but they seem to miss controls inside a Tab Control.
Is it possible to programmatically read controls in a Tab Control?
Attached is an example VI illustrating this.
Attachments:
Controls Mismatch.vi ‏21 KB

I didn't open your code.
A tab control has a property called Pages. This is an array of page references. Wire this property node to a for loop, then use a property node to read the property CtlsOnPage to get an array of references for each element on the page of that tab.
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