Open a subtab in service console on clicking custom button

Question

Currently we have a VF page as the Home page of Service Console and have a custom Button to create a new contact record . I would like to open this new contact page in a subtab when the button is clicked. Any sample code will be of great help as I am using Console for the first time.

Answer 1

You want the openPrimaryTab method.

Sample Code–Visualforce

<apex:page standardController="Case">

     <A HREF="#" onClick="testOpenPrimaryTab();return false">
         Click here to open a new primary tab</A> 

    <apex:includeScript value="/support/console/22.0/integration.js"/>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function testOpenPrimaryTab() {
            //Open a new primary tab with the salesforce.com home page in it
            sforce.console.openPrimaryTab(null, 'http://www.salesforce.com', false, 
                'salesforce', openSuccess, 'salesforceTab');
        }
        
        var openSuccess = function openSuccess(result) {
            //Report whether opening the new tab was successful
            if (result.success == true) {
                alert('Primary tab successfully opened');
            } else {
                alert('Primary tab cannot be opened');
            }
        };
        
  </script>

</apex:page>