How to switch to other tab via script and save the state of the current tab?

[Norn]

How to switch to other tab via script and save the state of the current tab? Just like the mouse clicks on other tab to switch, and F7 #520.
Sorting and view state are lost via script, I didn't find information about it in the help documentation:

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 seltab +;
 wait 1000;
 tab("close")

[highend]

What has "Go to previous location" or tab("close") to do with "save the state of the current tab" (for whatever that means)? oO

[Norn]

Forgive my way of explaining. . .
Write something to the Alternate Data Stream and restore the timestamp, the speed of restoring the timestamp is affected by the number of list items:

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 $test = "Test";
 $selected = <get selecteditemspathnames>;
 foreach($item, $selected, <crlf>) {
    $modified = property("#date.m", $item);           // Get modified date
    writefile("$item:Tags", $test, , "utf8bom");      // Set to ADS
    timestamp "m", $modified, $item;                  // Restore timestamp
    }

If I switch to a tab without any items, it's fast. How do I not lose the state of the sort and view when switching back?

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 $test = "Test";
 $selected = <get selecteditemspathnames>;
 tab('new', '"Please Wait. . ."');
 foreach($item, $selected, <crlf>) {
    $modified = property("#date.m", $item);           // Get modified date
    writefile("$item:Tags", $test, , "utf8bom");      // Set to ADS
    timestamp "m", $modified, $item;                  // Restore timestamp
    }

 if (tab("get", "path") == '"Please Wait. . ."') {tab("close")}

Edit: In the search results tab.
Made it with #520:

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 $test = "Test";
 $selected = <get selecteditemspathnames>;
 tab('new', '"Please Wait. . ."');
 foreach($item, $selected, <crlf>) {
    $modified = property("#date.m", $item);           // Get modified date
    writefile("$item:Tags", $test, , "utf8bom");      // Set to ADS
    timestamp "m", $modified, $item;                  // Restore timestamp
    }

 #520;

 foreach($path, get("tabs", <crlf>), <crlf>) {
    $index++;
    if ($path == '"Please Wait. . ."') {
        tab("close", , $index)
        }
    }