Is there a way to force startprocesslink to open in a new tab? To my knowledge, if you control+click it opens in a new tab, but left click by itself opens in the same tab. If not, what are all the ways Appian can be configured to open a new tab?
The ones I know about are:
My scenario is that a user is on an interface in a process model, and there are a set of cards configured with submitlink. When the user clicks the card, a subprocess is initiated depending on the link selected, which contains another interface. The user would like clicking on the card to always open a new tab. startProcessLink seems like the best option (initiate the sub process), but to my knowledge opening in a new tab requires control + click.
I could also use recordActionField by setting up a dummy record and actions connected to each sub process, but this seems like an odd use of a record.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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The technique to (use unsupported functionality to) open a start process link in a new tab has been posted already - i'll admit i've used it here or there, but usually for unofficial / testing / non-user-facing use cases.
The other thing I can think of that uses more "supported" functionality would be the thing you're already thinking of - basically, to establish a "dummy" record type, for instance, and create record actions that you can invoke (adding them as on-form record actions using that alternative functionality) for arbitrary use cases.
I've asked in the past for more options for "start process link" - imho we should be able to configure it to target "new tab" or "pop-up", for flexibility of various options. For the moment though it's buried in the product backlog behind a decade worth of new/flashy/"sellabe" features that i won't have any use case for in the next 5 years at a minimum
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the info, and that sounds about right with the backlog haha. I will see what I can do.