I'm using Engage Tabs to create an index to a pretty text-dense resource.
I'd like to put a couple intro paragraphs in Engage Tabs for each of the topics (6) that Tabs introduces and use a link to point to the "long copy". The external links option in Engage opens a new window. Ideally though, the link wouldn't launch a new window as Engage does, but instead trigger a pop-up.
I've modified data.xml file to point to a popup reference (link). And in the engage.html file I've placed the JavaScript to support the request. Doesn't work tho.
Anyone have experience with this or interested in this approach?
Feature Request: link to new window or pop-up from Engage Tabs.
For anyone interested in exploring this further, I tried hacking the data.xml to support popups without success. However, I was able to modify the links in the generated data.xml file changing:
target='_blank' (this is included by default)
to
target='_self'
and then adding an anchor reference to the link path, changing:
href='[your link here]'>
to
href='[your link here]#[anchor name]'>
This will let me jump to a specific part of a document after setting an anchor in place like:
in the targeted file.
It would be _much_ better with a pop-up, then the popped content could be closed returning the user to their current tab. As it stands, with anchors, users need to start the Engage Tabs object over again when they return to it.
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Hey Art,
Cool idea. You can log formal feature requests here, and our developers see every one of 'em. Thanks!
Submitted. Thanks Peter.
For anyone interested in exploring this further, I tried hacking the data.xml to support popups without success. However, I was able to modify the links in the generated data.xml file changing:
target='_blank' (this is included by default)
to
target='_self'
and then adding an anchor reference to the link path, changing:
href='[your link here]'>
to
href='[your link here]#[anchor name]'>
This will let me jump to a specific part of a document after setting an anchor in place like:
in the targeted file.
It would be _much_ better with a pop-up, then the popped content could be closed returning the user to their current tab. As it stands, with anchors, users need to start the Engage Tabs object over again when they return to it.
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