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getFocusedTabInfo() for Lightning Experience

Returns information about the focused workspace tab or subtab.

Arguments

Name Type Description
callback function JavaScript method called upon completion of the method. Returns a tabInfo object containing information about the focused tab.

Sample Code

This component has a button that, when pressed, closes the currently focused tab.

Component code:

1<aura:component implements="flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes" access="global" >
2    <force:workspaceAPIAccess aura:id="workspace" />
3    <lightning:button label="Close Focused Tab" onclick="{! c.closeFocusedTab }" />
4</aura:component>

Controller code:

1({
2    closeFocusedTab : function(component, event, helper) {
3        var workspaceAPI = component.find("workspace");
4        workspaceAPI.getFocusedTabInfo({
5            callback : function(error, response){
6                    var focusedTabId = response.tabId; 
7                    workspaceAPI.closeTab({tabId : focusedTabId}) ;
8            }
9        });
10    }, 
11})

The relative URL used in this example is a placeholder. To try this example yourself, use a relative URL with a record ID from your org.

Note

Response

This method is asynchronous, and returns an array of tabInfo objects. A tabInfo object is a JSON array of information about a workspace tab, with nested arrays of information on each subtab. This is the structure of a tabInfo object.
1{ tabId: string,
2     active: boolean
3     pinned: boolean,
4     closeable: boolean,
5     title: string,
6     icon: string (SLDS iconKey),
7     iconAlt: string,
8     recordId: string,
9     url: string (URL),
10     subtabs: [
11         {
12             tabId: string,
13             active": boolean,
14             pinned": boolean,
15             closeable": boolean,
16             title: string,
17             icon: string (SLDS iconKey),
18             iconAlt: string,
19             recordId: string,
20             url: string (URL),
21             isSubtab: boolean,
22             parentTabId: string,
23             customTitle: string,
24             customIcon: string (URL),
25             customIconAlt: string
26          },
27          { ... }
28     ],
29     isSubtab: boolean,
30     parentTabId: string,
31     customTitle: string,
32     customIcon: string (URL),
33     customIconAlt: string
34}