Reusable function to open a subtab in service console

The following function will help you to open a sub tab. Service console kit offers lot of methods with callback feature & using them we can achieve the UI requirements.

Here in this scenario goal is to open a sub tab considering the window is opened console or not and making it dynamic so that any page can access this resource file in the static resource.

	/**Params
	* 1. url ----- string URL
	* 2. tabName - String tab name
	**/
	function openLink(url, tabName) {
	var openSubtab = function openSubtab(result) {
	//Now that we have the primary tab ID, we can open a new subtab in it
	var primaryTabId = result.id;
	sforce.console.openSubtab(primaryTabId, '/' + url, true, tabName, null, tabName);
	};
	if (sforce.console.isInConsole()) {
	//First find the ID of the primary tab to put the new subtab in
	sforce.console.getEnclosingPrimaryTabId(openSubtab);
	} else {
	(window.open('/' + url, '_blank')).focus();
	}
	}

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More information can be seen @ https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_console.meta/api_console/sforce_api_console_opensubtab.htm