# Making the 'Help' tab as the default tab to open

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/making-the-help-tab-as-the-default-tab-to-open/10944>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 31, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/making-the-help-tab-as-the-default-tab-to-open/10944 "2020-03-31T20:03:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/making-the-help-tab-as-the-default-tab-to-open/10944/1 "2020-03-31T20:03:09Z")

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I have this strange issue. I need the Help section of the ‘Help and Acknowledgement’ tab to be the default tab to show. I can manually click the help, but when I open a new slicer, this always goes back displaying Acknowledgement tab.

Is there a persistent setting to modify this behavior?

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/making-the-help-tab-as-the-default-tab-to-open/10944/2 "2020-03-31T20:25:04Z")

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There’s no current persistent setting for this, at least not that I know of. But it would be easy enough to set in a .slicerrc.py.

This should do it:

```auto
findChildren(name="HelpAcknowledgementTabWidget")[0].currentIndex = 0

```

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/making-the-help-tab-as-the-default-tab-to-open/10944/3 "2020-03-31T20:53:07Z")

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I think it would be better to always make the Help tab the default. Acknowledgement information is much less frequently needed. Probably it was the original intent, too, because Help is the first tab and Acknowledgement is the second tab.

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**Author:** ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/making-the-help-tab-as-the-default-tab-to-open/10944/4 "2020-03-31T21:03:44Z")

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I agree that this should be default behavior.

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/making-the-help-tab-as-the-default-tab-to-open/10944/5 "2020-04-01T00:42:38Z")

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Yes, that would be an easy change.

It’s here if anyone wants to take it on:

> <https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/blob/47deb76d7556e40de4e25e585c4b24a63a153da5/Base/QTGUI/Resources/UI/qSlicerModulePanel.ui#L89>

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**Author:** ![jamesobutler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jamesobutler/32/7511_2.png) [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/making-the-help-tab-as-the-default-tab-to-open/10944/6 "2020-04-03T05:10:01Z")

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> [@pieper](#):
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> It’s here if anyone wants to take it on:

Here you go [ENH: Set Help tab as the default instead of Acknowledgement by jamesobutler · Pull Request #4804 · Slicer/Slicer · GitHub](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/pull/4804). I co-authored you @pieper!