Tab focused event in Lightning Console with Visualforce page

Question

I have a Visualforce page that can be displayed pretty much everywhere (tab in classic, console, lightning console, lightning experience).

I have some visualisation issues when using the lightning console when the user switch to another tab and then back again to my page. I can resolve this issue by running some code when the tab get focused. The thing is, I can't find an API that works for me.

I found this: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_console.meta/api_console/sforce_api_console_events_tabfocused.htm But not sure even how to integrate it to my VF (the VF is not a lightning component).

Any help would be welcomed.

Answer 1

Your link is to the Lightning equivalents of the Salesforce Console Integration Toolkit APIs that have been available for many years for use in Visualforce pages.

There isn't an onTabFocused function but I see there is a onEnclosingTabRefresh that may be the nearest thing. The sample code for that is:

<apex:includeScript value="/support/console/43.0/integration.js"/>

<script type="text/javascript">
    var eventHandler = function eventHandler(result) {
        alert('Enclosing tab has refreshed:' + result.id 
        + 'and the object Id is:' + result.objectId);
    };
    sforce.console.onEnclosingTabRefresh(eventHandler);
</script>