Closing sub tab and refreshing primary tab

I was working in this scenario, I did not see any snippets available in the community. Thought I would give a try and make it to work. I was successful to do it so. Let me give you guys a working code which might help you to save a lot of time.

Hope it helps.

Components:
1) JS button for Account layout
2) VF page
3) Controller

Scenario:
• When user opens a account record in a servicer console. It will open the record in a primary tab.
• There will be a detail page button which will host a VF page with custom control
• VF page will do some DML operations on SF objects including Account
• Now when user clicks a button in the VF page, then the VF page(SubTab) should close and Account Page(PrimaryTab) should refresh to show the updated data.

Code snippets

JS Button:

	/* Require the Salesforce Console Integration Toolkit */
	{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/support/console/33.0/integration.js")}
	/* Verify sforce.console now exists */
	console.log("sforce: %o", sforce);
	/* Get the enclosing tab's ID, so that openSubtab()
	can be called with the correct parameter*/
	sforce.console.getEnclosingPrimaryTabId(
	function(response) {
	/* Remember the primary tab ID for openSubtab() */
	var primaryTabId = response.id;
	console.log("primaryTabId: %o", primaryTabId);
	var recId = "{!Account.Id}";
	/* Define the target URL using a dummy Case ID */
	var url = "/apex/ServiceConsoleExp?id="+recId ;
	/* Define other parameters for openSubtab() */
	var isActive = true;
	var tabLabel = null;
	var subtabId = null;
	/* Call openSubtab() */
	sforce.console.openSubtab( primaryTabId, url, isActive, tabLabel, subtabId);
	});

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VF page:

	<apex:page Controller="ServiceConsoleExp_C_ORG">
	<apex:form id="theForm">
	<apex:commandButton action="{!doFinish}" value="Click here to refresh a primary tab by id - CB" onComplete="closeTab(); return false;" />
	</apex:form>
	<apex:includeScript value="/support/console/22.0/integration.js"/>
	<apex:includeScript value="/soap/ajax/27.0/apex.js"/>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	function closeTab() {
	console.log('init');
	if (sforce.console.isInConsole()) {
	sforce.console.getEnclosingPrimaryTabId(showTabId);
	}
	}
	var showTabId = function showTabId(result)
	{
	var tabId = result.id;
	sforce.console.refreshPrimaryTabById(tabId , true, refreshSuccess);
	};
	var refreshSuccess = function refreshSuccess(result) {
	if (result.success == true) {
	console.log('2');
	sforce.console.getEnclosingTabId(closeSubtab);
	} else {
	//any code
	}
	};
	var closeSubtab = function closeSubtab(result) {
	var tabId = result.id;
	console.log('1');
	sforce.console.closeTab(tabId);
	};
	</script>
	</apex:page>

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Controller:

	public class ServiceConsoleExp_C_ORG {
	public Id recId;
	public ServiceConsoleExp_C_ORG() {
	recId = (Id)ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters().get('id');
	System.debug('---'+ recId);
	}
	public PageReference doFinish(){
	System.debug('---'+ recId);
	Account a = [SELECT ID, name FROM Account WHERE id=:recId];
	a.name = a.name + ':)';
	update a;
	return null;
	}
	}

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