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getTabInfo() for Lightning Experience

Returns information about the specified tab.

Arguments

Name Type Description
tabId string ID of the tab for which to retrieve the information.
callback function JavaScript method called upon completion of the method. Returns a tabInfo object containing information about the specified tab.

Sample Code

This component has a button that, when pressed, opens a tab and uses the getTabInfo() method to print the new tab’s tabInfo to the developer console.

Component code:

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

Controller code:

1({
2    getOpenedTabInfo : function(component, event, helper) {
3        var workspaceAPI = component.find("workspace");
4        workspaceAPI.openTab({
5            url: '#/sObject/001R0000003HgssIAC/view',
6            focus: true, 
7            callback : function(error, response) { 
8                workspaceAPI.getTabInfo({
9                    tabId : response,
10                    callback : function(error, response){
11                        console.log(response); 
12                    }
13                });
14            }
15        });
16    }
17})

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 a tabInfo object. 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}