Tip: How to Expand / Unexpand NetSuite Tabs when No Icon is Present

This article is relevant if you can’t seem to find the icon in your NetSuite user interface for expanding or collapsing tabs.

Background

NetSuite’s user interface uses a tabbed navigation metaphor to organize information in the lower half of the screen (although in my mind, since the update to the user interface in 2014.2 with a flat design, it’s not so easy to tell those elements are tabs).  In many cases, NetSuite will present an indicator (“unrolled view”) on the upper right-hand corner that allows you to click to expand or contract the tabbed interface. But there are times that icon is missing.  What do you do?

URL Unlayered Parameter

The good news is the fix is easily within reach.  Modify the URL of the page you are on by adding the following parameter to get the desired presentation:

1. Tab Contract: &unlayered=F
2. Tab Expand: &unlayered=T

For example, if your URL is

https://system.na3.netsuite.com/app/accounting/transactions/timebill.nl?whence=

add the parameter to the end of the URL so it becomes:

https://system.na3.netsuite.com/app/accounting/transactions/timebill.nl?whence=&unlayered=F