a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 12:41:55 GMT

[quote userid="152688" url="~/discussions/f/user-interface/13381/a-startprocesslink-open-in-a-different-new-tab/101751#101751"]Is there a way to close the New Tab opened in web browser after the process completion [/quote]

Nope, sorry.

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

priyankav4295 — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:14:53 GMT

Hi,

Is there a way to close the New Tab opened in web browser after the process completion ?

Thanks,

Priyanka

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 15:19:46 GMT

[quote userid="2478" url="~/discussions/f/user-interface/13381/a-startprocesslink-open-in-a-different-new-tab/100782#100782"]how often would you say that you have an action that isn't associated with a record in some way[/quote]

I don't know whether that's a fair metric by which to judge whether a!startProcessLink()'s lack of a "new_tab" launch target is actually a "feature incompleteness" issue.

But I'll go ahead and say I use it fairly often and (without having an easy way to tally retrospectively of course) i'd roughly estimate that maybe 75% of my use cases are relevant to data that doesn't concern any specific entry in one of the (relatively few) DB tables we have set up as Record Types.

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

Peter Lewis — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 21:30:05 GMT

It's a fair point - how often would you say that you have an action that isn't associated with a record in some way though?

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:28:05 GMT

[quote userid="2478" url="~/discussions/f/user-interface/13381/a-startprocesslink-open-in-a-different-new-tab/100553#100553"]The record action contains a property for "openActionsIn" [/quote]

As an aside, i think it was a bit of an oversight / feature incompleteness issue that [some of] the other link components were updated with launch target overrides (which is great) but a!startProcessLink() was passed over. Especially considering that with enough (unreasonably work-aroundish) effort, someone could set up arbitrary links anyway using the Record Action link as you mentioned - of course this would require staging a dummy record type, a dummy action, etc - and for what gain?

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

priyankav4295 — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:35:41 GMT

Hi Peter,

Thank you for the heads up on the record action.

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

Peter Lewis — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 12:22:22 GMT

Can you use a record action instead of a start process link? The record action contains a property for "openActionsIn" that allows you to designate whether to open in a new tab, same tab, or dialog. If you do this, it will work within your site rather than opening in Tempo.

Also just a general suggestion - I'd recommend creating a new post in the future rather than adding to an existing thread. In 4 years a lot of things change so there are often new ways to achieve functionality that could be better served with a new post 🙂

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

priyankav4295 — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 08:17:44 GMT

I tried using safelink , but looks like we can open new tab in Tempo ,if configured in Sites ( I mean application hosted using Sites --> suite/sites/ ) ,I am getting access denied error .

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

deepakg271869 — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 08:10:04 GMT

You can use Safelink and in that you can provide the url to which you want to navigate.

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

priyankav4295 — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 08:07:38 GMT

Hello ,

Is there a way to implement this in Appian sites ? Currently new tab in the browser opens in tempo as we have configured Temp on the uri . I tried to configure in sites ,but no luck. Is there a way to configure to open in new tab when using application in Appian sites . Something like https://[Appian Site URL].appiancloud.com/suite/sites/[application-name].

Thank you.

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

srinandhavin5120 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 07:12:45 GMT

Hi Preji,

I saw the document you have attached and see that the URI you have passed to the safe link does not seem valid. It should have the below format(xxxxxx to be replaced with your appian client+environment) to work -

uri: "https://xxxxxx.appiancloud.com/suite/tempo/start-process/" & local!startLink.processModelOpaqueId & "?parameters=" & local!startLink.cacheKey

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

Preji P — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:14:41 GMT

community.appian.com/.../snapshot.docxHello Nandhavi,

I have similar requirement to start process on a new tab, but my process need some parametreised variables to be passed while calling, hence I have used a local variable where I initialise the proccess variables and then this local variable is used inside the URI field of a!safelink.
But am not getting the desired outout as each time the page loads with error message saying i do not have right permission, which is not true because i have all the required rights plus same configuration works when i directly use a!startProcessLink instead of a!safeLink

But as i need to load the process in new tabe I have to use a!safeLink. could you please help me

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

vijay — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 07:11:24 GMT

Hi,

Please go through the following link to find how we can open the process in the new tab:

https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/13309/start-a-process-in-a-new-broswer/60184#60184

Regards,

Vijay

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

santoshd378 — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 07:05:00 GMT

Hi Siddharth,

Adding to the Srinadh comment, you can create an environment specific constant which holds the site URL and you can concatenate the parameters.

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

srinandhavin5120 — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 05:20:01 GMT

The following approach is not recommended, because the parameters might change anytime without prior notice.

load(
local!startLink: a!startProcessLink(
processModel: [Process Model Constant],
processParameters: [Parameters for the Process]
),
a!linkField(
links: a!safeLink(
label: "Open",
uri: "[Appian Site URL]/suite/tempo/start-process/" & local!startLink.processModelOpaqueId & "?parameters=" & local!startLink.cacheKey
)
)
)

RE: a!startProcessLink() open in a different/new tab?

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:53:49 GMT

Officially I don't think there's a way to do this.

However if you're desperate, you might be able to examine the properties of the dictionary returned by a!startProcessLink and construct a URL manually which you could then call via a!safeLink. Just note that this would be completely unsupported, and liable to change without warning at any point in the future as Appian technology evolves.

Hopefully at some point they might give designers the ability to declare (i.e. via new optional parameter) that certain links should open in a new window (record links, start process links, perhaps others).