enablePopout() for Lightning Experience

Toggles pop-out mode on a utility. Enabling pop-out mode on a utility displays the utility in a separate child window. This method is available for Lightning Web Components (LWC) only.

Arguments 

Optional parameters are passed into an object as the last argument of the method.

NameTypeDescription
utilityIdstringThe ID of the utility for which to toggle pop-out mode.
enabledbooleanSpecifies whether to enable the utility’s modal mode.
disabledTextstringOptional. Hover text for pop-out button when the utility is not enabled for pop-out mode.

LWC Sample Code 

This component toggles modal mode in a utility bar.

1import { LightningElement, wire } from 'lwc';
2import { enablePopout, EnclosingUtilityId } from 'lightning/platformUtilityBarApi';
3
4export default class EnablePopoutExample extends LightningElement {
5    @wire(EnclosingUtilityId) utilityId;
6    enable = true;
7    
8    async handleToggle() {
9        const enable = !this.isPopoutEnabled;
10        await enablePopout(this.utilityId, enable, { disabledText: 'disabled' });
11        this.isPopoutEnabled = enable;
12    }
13}

To make your component available for use in a utility bar, specify the lightning__UtilityBar target in the component’s configuration file.

Response 

Returns a promise that resolves to true if successful. The promise is rejected on error.