I'm trying to find a way to use the "Self" function in conjunction with conditionally formatting on tab panels to create an aesthetically pleasing yet simple way to show users which tab panel they have selected.

 

I originally tried adding conditional formatting to one of the tabs using the calculation: GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( Self ; "isFrontTabPanel" )

 

Unfortunately, this does not work.  However, when I replace the Self function with the actual object name it works!  Am I not understanding how the Self function works or is this a gotcha with Layout Objects?  Reading through the tech docs on the Self functions makes it seems like this may only apply to Fields and Text Objects.

The first parameter of the GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( ) function is the name of the object while Self is used to obtain the content of a field, not its name.

GetLayoutObjectAttribute doesn't grab the name of an object.