Kit Menke's Blog

My problem started with a simple change to a site column. I had originally created a Country field with the following values:

• US
• Canada

After a change in requirements, the new values for the field were:

• Canada
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Ireland
• United States

After updating the site column, I then needed to update the hundreds of items in the list to use “United States” instead of “US”. Instead of updating hundreds of items manually, I decided to write a small web services console app. (I was also not able to update it in datasheet… due to content approval maybe???)

However, I quickly ran into problems when attempting to update the multi-select choice field.

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I recently ran into the weird issue of not having my tabs highlighted correctly. After consulting Uncle Google, it seems Andy Burns ran into this same issue.

The problem started after creating multiple aspx pages within my site and then setting up a tab for each page by editing the Top Link Bar (also known as the top navigation) under Site Settings. Each of the tabs worked correctly, but after clicking a tab that tab would not be highlighted and the home tab would stay selected.

The fix, as Andy mentions, is to change your URLs to be relative. After the change, your tabs work as you would expect.