Using Cards to Open Record List View Within Same Site and Window

Question

We have an application with three record types (Accounts, Items, Manager Groupings). 
 Ideally we would dedicate a Site tab to each view but the 5-tab limitation inhibits that. Therefore, we use one "Records" tab to access all three records where the user chooses from one card for each record type. Currently that open up a separate browser window and a separate Site where each record list view is on it's own site tab. In an ideal world the card would open up the record list view within the existing window and Site where the card is clicked. 
 Has anyone accomplished this successfully? Would love to see how you did it.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

Similar to what Stewart already mentioned, a project I was on recently accomplished this by using Reports pointing to custom-built Record listings. Honestly, custom-built record listings provide a lot more flexibility anyway, and only have a slight dropoff in ease of design (at least if you're ok with foregoing the baked-in features like Export List to Excel and the Save Default Filters introduced in 19.4). 
 Otherwise, doing it this way provides a seamless integration within a Site since it provides nearly unlimited levels of nesting (like, you can just have a main "Records" site tab, then in there, have various major categories to drill down into, and categories under those, etc). Also, doing more advanced filtering and other on-page features (like having multiple "action" buttons to start various processes) are a huge benefit which I don't foresee ever being included with the OOB record list builder. 
 As a side-note, it escapes me why they haven't just gone ahead and included a way to make a!recordLink() just link to the record type when no identifier is provided. And why we haven't gotten other similar navigation link types to facilitate OOB linking without resorting to workarounds involving URL cobbling (and requiring a!safeLink() ) -- like a new component called a!siteLink() for one possible example. Or a!recordTypeLink(), i.e. if updating a!recordLink() wouldn't work for back-end reasons.

Using Cards to Open Record List View Within Same Site and Window

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