# Is there an action run when opening/selecting a TAB?

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-an-action-run-when-opening-selecting-a-tab/43390>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [June 22, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-an-action-run-when-opening-selecting-a-tab/43390 "2022-06-22T23:29:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-an-action-run-when-opening-selecting-a-tab/43390/1 "2022-06-22T23:29:28Z")

</div>

SSIA - is there an action run?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-an-action-run-when-opening-selecting-a-tab/43390/2 "2022-06-22T23:50:42Z")

</div>

No, that’s not a thing as of now.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-an-action-run-when-opening-selecting-a-tab/43390/3 "2022-06-23T00:07:00Z")

</div>

Ya, unfortunately it’s not ☹.

I’ve requested it. I imagine it would work by allowing us to set the action at the tab level (by default it would be “Go to tab”).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-an-action-run-when-opening-selecting-a-tab/43390/4 "2022-06-23T02:14:51Z")

</div>

Yeah, many times I wished we had this.

But I guess there could be quite a contextual challenge with this. Imagine you want to use a Set Column Values action. How would you configure this when there is no way of knowing ahead of time which screen/table the user would be attached to before they navigate to the tab? 🤔