force startprocesslink always open in a new tab?

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"
)
)
)

If I were you, I would challenge the approach.

The interface that opens, what are they? A task assigned to the user, or just a listview, or something else? Because you could take out one of these interfaces from the process model and use various link fields available.

When there is a task in a process, I do not see any good reason to try to open another process from it and somehow jump into that user interface.

In my small world, I implement mostly process driven applications in Appian. This means that the process model in Appian is a close approximation of that business process. Then, having three buttons in a task means, that the user needs to make a decision about how the next step in the process. For me, this is then just a XOR in the model.

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 [emoticon:069c7caf8c4345398595a2bf02d4fbea]