Opening in new Tab/Window through UI action

[Community Alums]

Hello Experts, 

I have a UI action "Create Story" in Incident form. I want to open that in new window as of now it is opening in the same window. Please advise. 

[Prince Arora · Accepted solution]

@Community Alums ,

Apologies I haven't read your problem statement.

Yes for achieving the new tab functionality, you need to make the UI action as "client" and it is not possible in server side scripting.

and make a GlideAjax call, to server side and after inserting the record into the table please return the sys_id from server's end.

var url = "/rm_story.do?sys_id=" + answer)

 g_navigation.openPopup(url)

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[Prince Arora]

@Community Alums ,

Can you please show the code of that UI action?

What type of UI action it is Server/Client?

[Community Alums]

Hi Prince 

Currently UI action  is in server side . 

createStory();

function createStory(){
var grStry = new GlideRecord('rm_story');

grStry.short_description = "Fix: " + current.short_description;
grStry.description = "Source: " + current.number + '';
grStry.acceptance_criteria = '';
grStry.u_requestors = current.u_affected_user;
var taskSys = grStry.insert();

action.setRedirectURL(grStry);
action.setReturnURL(current);}

[Prince Arora]

@Community Alums ,

Can you try,

action.setRedirectURL("/rm_story.do?sys_id=" + grStry);

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[Community Alums]

Hi Prince, 

No it is not opening in new tab , Do you think we can control the Browser through Server side ? or should we first convert this to client side and then try ? I am not sure , have you done this before ?