Hi Patrick,
I'm actually feeling kind of ambivalent about our tabs, and perhaps stepping back and asking your advice would be good. I think there are two ways to go: (a) one giant element set, with custom tabs calling in different elements to separate them out visually / workflow-wise, or (b) separate element sets, each with their own automatically-created tab.
I am actually leaning towards (b), because that means that naming conventions will be easier (I don't have to have 160 unique field names, since I can duplicate field names across element sets), because the tabs are already set up and with the order elements plugin we can reorder them through the GUI rather than a hard-coded tab plugin, and because it just seems cleaner over all.
But I'm running into issues where it would make more sense to have one element set and just do the separating via another display plugin. Argh Argh. I think I'm stuck because I don't want to make a design decision now that seems to make things easier, but 6 months down the line when all our metadata is finally in place we realize the opposite.
Given that I'm leaning toward separate element sets, do you have any particular advice? Thanks, as always for the info and the great conversations :)
- Caitlin