Salesforce Mobile App Navigation Methods for Use with Canvas Apps

refresh is optional. By default, the page doesn’t refresh. Pass true to refresh the page if possible.

view is optional and defaults to detail. view specifies the slide within record home to display initially.

Record IDs corresponding to ContentNote SObjects aren’t supported.

The possible values are:

• detail: the record detail slide
• chatter: the Chatter slide
• related: the view of related slide

Use relative URLs to navigate to different screens within your app. Use external URLs to allow the user to access a different site or app, where those actions don’t need to be preserved in your app. To return the user to your app, the separate window that’s opened by an external URL must be closed when the user is finished with the other app. The new window has a separate history from your app, and this history is discarded when the window is closed. Discarding the history of a new window prevents the user from clicking a Back button to go back to your app; the user must close the new window.

mailto:, tel:, geo:, and other URL schemes are supported for launching external apps and attempt to “do the right thing.” However, support varies by mobile platform and device. mailto: and tel: are reliable, but we recommend that you test any other URLs on a range of expected devices.

isredirect is optional and defaults to false. Set it to true to indicate that the new URL should replace the current one in the navigation history.

Be careful when using navigateToURL within the onClick handler of an <apex:commandButton> or any <button type="submit"> or <input type="submit">. Even if isredirect=true, the default click action of the command button is a form post. In this scenario, the command button performs a form post and a navigateToURL action, requiring the user to click the back button twice to navigate to the previous page. To prevent the default click action, configure the onClick handler to either call event.preventDefault() or return false.

URLs corresponding to ContentNote SObjects aren’t supported.

The possible values for type are:

• BOOKMARKS: Contains all feed items saved as bookmarks by the context user. Pass the current user’s ID as the subjectId.
• COMPANY: Contains all feed items except feed items of type TrackedChange. To see the feed item, the user must have sharing access to its parent. Pass the current user’s ID as the subjectId.
• FILES: Contains all feed items that contain files posted by people or groups that the context user follows. Pass the current user’s ID as the subjectId.
• GROUPS: Contains all feed items from all groups the context user either owns or is a member of. Pass the current user’s ID as the subjectId.
• NEWS: Contains all updates for people the context user follows, groups the user is a member of, and files and records the user is following. Contains all updates for records whose parent is the context user. Pass the current user’s ID as the subjectId.
• PEOPLE: Contains all feed items posted by all people the context user follows. Pass the current user’s ID as the subjectId.
• RECORD: Contains all feed items whose parent is a specified record, which could be a group, user, object, file, or any other standard or custom object. When the record is a group, the feed also contains feed items that mention the group. When the record is a user, the feed contains only feed items on that user. You can get another user’s record feed. Pass the record’s ID as the subjectId.
• TO: Contains all feed items with mentions of the context user. Contains feed items the context user commented on and feed items created by the context user that are commented on. Pass the current user’s ID as the subjectId.
• TOPICS: Contains all feed items that include the specified topic. Pass the topic’s ID as the subjectId. This value is supported in Salesforce for mobile web only. Topics aren’t available in Salesforce for iOS or Salesforce for Android.

relatedListId is the API name or ID of the related list to display.

listViewName sets the title for the list view. It doesn’t need to match the actual name that’s saved for the list view. To use the saved name, set listViewName to null.

Set scope to the name of the sObject in the view, for example, “Account” or “MyObject__c”.

recordTypeId is optional and specifies the record type for the created object. Calling createRecord without providing a recordTypeId may result in an error.