Make Cmd-Click (Open in tab) work on onclick buttons and links

Question

As I understand it right we are supposed to not use href="/..." attributes anymore in Lightning and have onclick="{c.navigateToSObject}" instead.

navigateToSObject: function(cmp, event, helper) {
        event.currentTarget.id;
        var evt = $A.get("e.force:navigateToSObject");
        evt.setParams({
            "recordId": recordId,
            "slideDevName": "detail"
        });
        evt.fire(); 
    }

But how do I get Command-Click (on Mac) to work with that?

According to this https://success.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=08730000000CIt7AAG it seems to be possible and is perfectly working for all links generated by the Salesforce UI. Just CMD-click any lookup field on a record page.

Answer 1

Here is example how to detect if CTRL key is pressed: Any way to detect keyup and keydown events NOT using an input field?

You can also use Salesforce url like here: Open link in another tab with e.force:navigateToURL

I did not try on mac, but on windows this works for me:

if(event.ctrlKey) {
    window.open('https://www.google.com','_blank');
} else {
    window.location.assign('https://www.google.com');
}

If you want to navigate to sObject, use url like this:

one/one.app#/sObject/0060E00000XXXXXXXX

If you want to navigate to custom component, you can do some trick to get url. In your url one/one.app#eyJjb... symbols after # is base64 json that decoded looks like this:

{
    "a:t": 1496392690947, // time when opened
    "attributes": {
        "values": {
            // your component attributes
            }
        }
    },
    "componentDef": "c:YourComponent"
}

So you can try to generate your json data, base64 encode and redirect to it.

To see your url decoded and parsed in lightning app, try this:

JSON.parse(atob(window.location.hash.split('#')[1]))