Cory,

Thanks for that.   Picking the right frame makes a big difference.  

I realize now that I have two issues and I was incorrectly expecting the active-tab thing to address both.   The setActive is working now, but I also want to simultaneously change the focus of the form to one of the fields (close_notes) on that tab.

I added this line to the client script:

        g_form.getElement('incident.close_notes').focus();

It doesn't work in the client script, but it does when I run it from the console.   Any ideas on how to make the client script work?

Thanks,

Justin