# Tab Strip data cell update binding issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** vision\ **Created:** [April 10, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-data-cell-update-binding-issue/88670 "2024-04-10T22:38:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tyler\_Shoemake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tyler_shoemake/32/55661_2.png) [@Tyler\_Shoemake](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tyler_Shoemake)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-data-cell-update-binding-issue/88670/1 "2024-04-10T22:38:11Z")
I am having an issue with creating a tab data cell update binding for a tab strip and was wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue. I am trying to bind the background color of a particular tab to flash whenever there is an error but every time it flashes, it attempts to navigate to the page tab that is flashing. ---
**Author:** ![ryan.white](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryan.white/32/73193_2.png) [@ryan.white](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryan.white)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-data-cell-update-binding-issue/88670/2 "2024-04-10T22:42:25Z")
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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-data-cell-update-binding-issue/88670/3 "2024-04-10T22:57:42Z")
Yeah, can't do this. Cell update bindings replace the entire dataset that they push into, which, for this case, causes a deselect-reselect event pair to occur on the current tab. ---
**Author:** ![Tyler\_Shoemake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tyler_shoemake/32/55661_2.png) [@Tyler\_Shoemake](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tyler_Shoemake)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-data-cell-update-binding-issue/88670/4 "2024-04-11T16:47:05Z")
So let's say I wanted to create my own "tab strip", would it be better to create a template repeater and use cell bindings on that data, or would it be better to spend the extra time to individually make every button and any time a change needs to happen to a button, you'll have to apply it to each and every button. (The project I work on has 8 tier 1 tabs and 57 tier 2 tabs) ---
**Author:** ![Tyler\_Shoemake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tyler_shoemake/32/55661_2.png) [@Tyler\_Shoemake](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tyler_Shoemake)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-data-cell-update-binding-issue/88670/5 "2024-04-11T16:51:27Z")
I can't really paste the code because its just a tab strip with a cell binding to a color. So you can bind the background color of a tab to a custom property on that tab. Then you just need to make the custom property color flash when a custom property bit is turned high. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tab-strip-data-cell-update-binding-issue/88670/6 "2024-04-11T16:54:57Z")
I pretty much never use cell bindings. I tend to use scripts or my Integration Toolkit expression functions to produce dynamic data sets where it makes sense. Animating based on a tag value is an operation that really need to be an indirect binding within a template, so that you **don't** have to change a source dataset.