setSidebarVisible()

Shows or hides a console sidebar based on tabId and region. This method is available in API version 33.0 or later. This method isn’t supported in Lightning Console.

Syntax

sforce.console.setSidebarVisible( visible:Boolean, (optional)tabId:String, (optional)region:String, (optional)callback:Function)

Arguments

Name Type Description
visible boolean true to show the sidebar or false to hide the sidebar.
tabId string The ID of the tab on which to show or hide the sidebar.
region string The region on the console where the sidebar is located, such as left or right, top or bottom. Regions are represented as:
  • sforce.console.Region.LEFT
  • sforce.console.Region.RIGHT
  • sforce.console.Region.TOP
  • sforce.console.Region.BOTTOM
callback function JavaScript method called upon completion of the method.

Sample Code–Visualforce

<apex:page>
   <apex:includeScript value="/support/console/63.0/integration.js"/>        
   <script type="text/javascript">
     
      var callback = function (result) { 
         if (result.success) { 
      alert('Congratulations!');
         }else { 
      alert('something is wrong!');
         }
      };
         function setSidebarVisible() {
           sforce.console.setSidebarVisible(true,'scc-st-1',sforce.console.Region.LEFT,callback);
      }
        
   </script>
    <A HREF="#" onClick="setSidebarVisible(); return false">SetSidebarToExpand</A>
</apex:page>

Response

This method is asynchronous, so it returns its response in an object in a callback method. The response object contains the following field:

Name Type Description
success boolean true if the method call was successful; false otherwise.