# Bug when opening a tab in the menu

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/bug-when-opening-a-tab-in-the-menu/18570
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/bug-when-opening-a-tab-in-the-menu/18570 "2020-11-17T18:09:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Pablo\_books](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pablo_books/32/2110_2.png) [@Pablo\_books](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pablo_books)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/bug-when-opening-a-tab-in-the-menu/18570/1 "2020-11-17T18:09:29Z")

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My app’s URL: 🤐  
Check out this video…

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/e/f/ef5b002d124cafa7cd5ca57e60cca0e1c6f99c38.jpeg "Menu Button not showing...") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzUCREhiVpU)

It happens in the builder and the live app  
Pls fix 😺

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### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/bug-when-opening-a-tab-in-the-menu/18570/2 "2020-11-17T18:14:31Z")

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I’m not sure I understand what the problem is that you are pointing out. Can you explain?

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### Author: ![Pablo\_books](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pablo_books/32/2110_2.png) [@Pablo\_books](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pablo_books)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/bug-when-opening-a-tab-in-the-menu/18570/3 "2020-11-17T18:37:03Z")

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I go to a tab via the ‘menu’ and instead of the menu showing, there’s a back button.

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### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/bug-when-opening-a-tab-in-the-menu/18570/4 "2020-11-17T18:53:18Z")

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To me that’s normal behavior. It’s always acted that way when navigating through the side menu. Otherwise there would be no way to navigate back to the main tabs at the bottom without the back button.

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### Author: ![Pablo\_books](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pablo_books/32/2110_2.png) [@Pablo\_books](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pablo_books)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/bug-when-opening-a-tab-in-the-menu/18570/5 "2020-11-17T19:10:57Z")

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I’m 99% sure that didn’t happen before, but ok 🤷‍♂️

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### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/bug-when-opening-a-tab-in-the-menu/18570/6 "2020-11-17T19:29:27Z")

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This is one of my posts from January. You can see in the attached images, that the side menu acted the same way.

> [@Limit Tab visibility to certain users](https://community.glideapps.com/t/limit-tab-visibility-to-certain-users/3513/2):
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> No, you can’t control which tabs are visible based on the user. What I would do is have an admin tab in the hamburger menu. Use the detail style layout. The sheet for that tab would only have rows for the administrators with their email. Turn on email filtering and then you can add any components or inline lists that only that administrator could see. The tab would be visible in the menu, but a non-admin would not see anything inside the tab since there would not be a matching row. In my a…

I’m 99.9% sure it’s working as intended. 😉
