force startprocesslink always open in a new tab?

Question

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: 
 
 startProcessLink 
 recordActionField 
 processTaskLink 
 
 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.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

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

Harshmodi · Answer

Hey, 
 Using this method allows you to open the interface in a new tab. In the link field, you need to provide the opaque ID and cache key, which can be obtained from the `startprocesslink` function. 
 However, It is advisable to avoid the following approach as the parameters may changes in different scenarios. 
 a!localVariables(
local!startProcessLink: a!startProcessLink(
processModel: Process Model Constant,
processParameters: Parameters for the Process Model
),
a!linkField(
links: a!safeLink(
label: "Open Form",
uri: "[site url]/suite/tempo/start-process/" & local!startProcessLink.processModelOpaqueId & "?parameters=" & local!startProcessLink.cacheKey,
openLinkIn:"NEW_TAB"
)
)
)