Provide unique URLs for Custom Tabs within the Menu

[#1]

Right now we have the ability to create dashboards and to include the dashboard on a Custom Tab within the following Global Areas: Project, Requests, Reporting.

The problem is there is not a way to consistently and easily give a link to someone to navigate to that location within Workfront.

For example, I created a new dashboard for some of my team members. In order to increase Workfront adoption, I also created a tab within the Reporting Global Area in Workfront. If they remember the navigation in Workfront to get to this special dashboard, they can easily get to it by clicking Reporting > Status Reports. However, if I want to have a reminder email sent out to them to remember to check the dashboard, I do not have a way to give them a URL that will take them straight to the Reporting > Status Reports tab in Workfront.

I do have the ability to give them a URL to the actual dashboard, but that is outside of the consistency that I am trying to instill with the users and Workfront. As a result, there is no opportunity to reinforce the actual navigation in Workfront. I want to help the best I can to provide a consistent space for them to work in and become confident in navigating the application. The fact that I can't send them to a custom tab, but can send they outside of that directly to a dashboard doesn't seem helpful to build this confidence. Does this make sense?

Sample of dashboard configured as a Tab within the Reporting Global Area.

Sample of the same dashboard, but accessed as a stand-alone dashboard (outside of the Reporting Global Area).

[#2]

Couldn't you just place those dashboards on the Layout Templates?

[#3]

Hi Kelly,

I think you CAN send them to a custom tab. Here's what I tried:

I created a custom tab "My Stuff" (first tab") in Reporting

The URL to that tab looks like this:

https://DOMAIN.my.workfront.com/reporting?activeTab=tab-content-dashboard__5cb180f2x15b4db1b318df3b3...

Note the long ID at back is the dashboard ID = you can get to it directly with

https://DOMAIN.my.workfront.com/dashboard/view?ID=5cb180f2x15b4db1b318df3b3244d9be

How I got the URL:

WF has the ability to direct a user to a specific "active Tab" - meaning the sub-tab to have active when the user hits one of the main areas (projects, reporting).

The basic URL structure is

https://DOMAIN.my.workfront.com/reporting?activeTab=

and the value of activeTab is whatever the system expects for the particular section.

How to find out? (it's not documented)

Right-click the tab you want, and choose Inspect

Find the data-name attribute value

In my case the HTML looked like this:

<li id="tab-content-dashboard__5cb180f2015b4db1b318df3b3244d9be" class="tab active custom" index="0">

<a class="tab-link" data-name="content-dashboard__5cb180f2015b4db1b318df3b3244d9be" href="javascript://">My Stuff</a>

<mark class="empty"></mark>

</li>

Or you can just use

https://DOMAIN.my.workfront.com/reporting?activeTab=tab-content-dashboard__

and add the ID of the dashboard your tab shows.

Let me know if that works for you.