{"id":510,"date":"2023-06-28T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automatethemundane.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/deep-link-to-a-specific-tab-in-a-model-driven-app\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T14:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T14:34:23","slug":"deep-link-to-a-specific-tab-in-a-model-driven-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automatethemundane.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/28\/deep-link-to-a-specific-tab-in-a-model-driven-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Link to a specific tab in a Model Driven app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

6\/28\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Why<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

At times, certain users may need to be directed to a specific tab when they are sent a link in an email. This solution builds off of the existing tab code from Expanding Model Driven apps with code - Hiding Tabs until record is created<\/a>. In this scenario, new users of the app will be sent an email that directs them directly to the Documentation tab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The How<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Create Parmenter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From the form select switch to classic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Select Form Properties<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Create the Parmenter as follows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Save and Publish the changes once completed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back at the form designer ensure the documentation tab is named \u201ctab_documentation\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\ud83d\udca1 Note: you may need to select \u201cShow Hidden\u201d to display the tab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Code<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We will be creating another code block that will work alongside the the code used in the with the following<\/p>\n\n\n\n

var MEA = window.MEA || {};\nvar Form = MEA.Form || {};\n\n(function () {\n    this.OnLoad = function (onLoadContext) {\n        var formContext = onLoadContext.getFormContext();\n        var extraParameters = Xrm.Utility.getGlobalContext().getQueryStringParameters();\n        var tabName = extraParameters[\"tab_name\"];\n        if(tabName != undefined){\n            var defaultTabObj = formContext.ui.tabs.get(tabName);\n            defaultTabObj.setFocus();\n        }\n    };\n}).call(Form);<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Add Code into the solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
From the solution add the new javascript and name it tabcontrol-documentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In the form add a new On Load event<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Testing Link<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Navigate to a record in the app and copy the URL. Add the following to the end of the URL. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
&extraqs=tab_name=tab_documentation<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The entire URL should now look like this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
https://ORGID.crm.dynamics.com\/main.aspx?appid=APPID&pagetype=entityrecord&etn=TABLENAME&id=ROWID&extraqs=tab_name=tab_documentation<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Copy and paste the URL into your browser and ensure that it goes to the correct tab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Create Flow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
With the code working we will now need to send an email with the correct link. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Within the solution create a Power Automate flow that will send a notification email to the supervisor when a new record is created. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\ud83d\udca1 My Flow name is \u201cPurchase Request Flow 1.1- Send Supervisor link to Request\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am a big fan of Scope in Power Automate. It helps me keep flows looking clean and troubleshoot when a clow gets complicated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This flow though is very simple. When a new request is made, Automate looks up the supervisors email, generates the URL, then sends it to the supervisor in an email. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Supervisor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
To get the supervisors email, I did a lookup to the users table and used the supervisor_value as the ID. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udca1 This could be taken down to one step, but I like to break them out for visualization purposes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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URL<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Building the URL is fairly straightforward, the first three items are all hardcoded to my environment. The last one puts them all together in the proper format. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Email<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Conclusion<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
The next steps would be to make the email look better and format the URL so that it is friendly to the user getting the email. However, that will be a post for another day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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