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setTabLabel() for Lightning Experience
Sets the label of the specified tab. This method works only in
Lightning console apps.
Arguments
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| tabId | string | The ID of the tab for which to set the label. |
| label | string | The label of the workspace tab or subtab. |
Sample Code
This component has a button that, when pressed, sets the label of the focused tab to “Focused Tab”.
Component code:
1<aura:component implements="flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes" access="global" >
2 <lightning:workspaceAPI aura:id="workspace" />
3 <lightning:button label="Set Focused Tab with Label" onclick="{! c.setFocusedTabLabel }" />
4 </aura:component>Controller code:
1({
2 setFocusedTabLabel : function(component, event, helper) {
3 var workspaceAPI = component.find("workspace");
4 workspaceAPI.getFocusedTabInfo().then(function(response) {
5 var focusedTabId = response.tabId;
6 workspaceAPI.setTabLabel({
7 tabId: focusedTabId,
8 label: "Focused Tab"
9 });
10 })
11 .catch(function(error) {
12 console.log(error);
13 });
14 }
15})Response
This method returns a promise that, upon success, resolves to a
tabInfo object representing the modified tab. A
tabInfo object is a JSON array of
information about a workspace tab, with nested arrays of information on each subtab.
This is the structure of a tabInfo
object.
1{
2 tabId: string,
3 url: string (URL),
4 pinned: boolean,
5 closeable: boolean,
6 title: string,
7 icon: string (SLDS iconKey),
8 iconAlt: string,
9 customTitle: string (optional),
10 customIcon: string (optional),
11 customIconAlt: string (optional),
12 highlighted: boolean,
13 pageReference: object,
14 isSubtab: boolean,
15 parentTabId: string,
16 subtabs: [
17 {
18 tabId: string,
19 url: string (URL),
20 pinned: boolean,
21 closeable: boolean,
22 title: string,
23 icon: string (SLDS iconKey),
24 iconAlt: string,
25 customTitle: string (optional),
26 customIcon: string (optional),
27 customIconAlt: string (optional),
28 highlighted: boolean,
29 pageReference: object,
30 isSubtab: boolean,
31 parentTabId: string,
32 focused: boolean,
33 recordId: string,
34 },
35 ...
36 ],
37 focused: boolean,
38 recordId: string
39}