Customize the Patient Navigation Component

Make it quick and easy for care coordinators to get to the information they need. Specify which subtabs open, and in what order, when a care coordinator opens a patient record in the console.

Available in: Lightning Experience

Available in: Enterprise and Unlimited Editions with Health Cloud


User Permissions Needed
To customize the patient card navigation menu: Customize Application

The Patient Navigation component helps care coordinators jump to the pages they need without leaving the patient console. Customize the tab navigation list with the items your care coordinators most frequently use. Add a navigation item to one of the default menu categories, or add a category with new child navigation options.

Patient navigation

You can also configure the tab navigation menu to open standard and custom pages or URLs as either primary or secondary tabs. Clicking an item in the menu opens a new tab or subtab related to that patient’s records.

All navigation menu elements appear in alphabetical order. Categories are listed in alphabetical order, as are the subcategories beneath them.

Note

  1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Custom Settings, then select Custom Settings.
  2. In the list of custom settings, click Manage next to the CardView Dropdown custom setting.
  3. Click New and complete these fields:
    Field Details
    Name Name of the parent category that contains child menu navigation items. The category name is just a heading and isn’t a navigation link.
    Category Label Enter the name of the custom label for the parent category that contains child menu navigation items, for example Tab_Timeline. The category name is just a heading and isn’t a navigation link. You can use a localized category name in this field. When a value exists for this field, the Category Name field isn’t used.
    Category Name Name of the parent category that contains child menu navigation items. The category name is just a heading and isn’t a navigation link.
    Default Subtab When selected, the related subtab appears by default in the Health Cloud console.
    URL Parameter (Optional) Add more URL parameters to the existing Visualforce page or URL to open the new tab.

    URL parameter format key=value,key2=value

    Tab Type Specify the type of tab for this page: Primary or Subtab. A primary tab is the main item to work on. A subtab is related to an item on a primary tab.
    Subcategory Name

    Name of the child category in the menu list. This text is the clickable link that opens the page or tab.

    Subcategory Label Customized label for the name of the child category in the menu list. This text is the clickable link that opens the page or tab. Use a custom label to create a localized category name in this field. When a value exists for this field, the Subcategory Name field isn’t used.
    Subtab Sort Order Indicates the order in which this tab appears in the console when it’s been selected as a default tab.

    If you add a configuration record to the menu, then modify the sort order. Since you can’t have two records with the same assigned sort order, create a different version number for the new record.

    Page Type Content type of the new page. Specify VFpage, URL, or LWC.

    Make sure to add external URLs to the console’s allowlist so that console users can access that domain.

    URL URL to access the page.

    Restrict user access to custom settings and grant permissions to custom settings using profiles or permission sets.

    Important

  4. Save your changes.

Example

The following example shows how to add a subtab entitled All Medical Records to a category named Medical Records. The example uses a custom VF page that displays all of a patient’s medical records.
Field Details
Name All Medical Data.
Category Label To use a localized or customized version of the Category Name field, enter it here. When there’s a value in this field, it’s used instead of the value in Category Name.
Category Name Medical Record
Default Subtab Enabled so that the subtab shows by default when the page loads
URL Parameter Not necessary
Tab Type Subtab
Subcategory Name All Medical Records
Subcategory Label To use a localized or customized version of the Subcategory Name field, enter it here. When there’s a value in this field, it’s used instead of the value in Subcategory Name.
Subtab Sort Order 7.0

This category displays in the seventh position on the menu.

Page Type VFpage

Make sure to add external URLs to the console’s allowlist so that console users can access that domain.

URL /apex/<VF page name>