As stated in sectionSection 9.17, “Work Area Tabs”, CoreMedia Studio organizes working items in a so called WorkArea. The WorkArea is an Ext JS TabPanel with tabs containing currently opened working items, for example (content) document forms, commerce forms or singleton items like the Studio Dashboard. Normally, each working item is created and rendered as a separate tab.

As a WorkArea tab can be a very complex component (for example, a document form with various subtabs, collapsible subpanels and heavyweight property editors like richtext fields or image editors), its lifecycle management from creation to destruction can be quite costly. To increase performance you can reuse tabs for multiple working items instead of creating new tabs over and over again. You have to use the Studio plugin ReusableDocumentFormTabsPlugin.

Note

Currently, this possibility is only implemented for document form tabs that display content items: Premulars.