Right click and open in new tab on apex:outputlink/apex:outputfield with a lookup field in lightning console is resulting in page not available
Last updated 2017-10-14 ·Reference W-4024157 ·Reported By 7 users
Summary
Right Click and open link in new tab on an apex:outputlink in lightning console results in the below error:
“Page Does Not exist “
Enter a Valid URL and Try again.
Repro
1.) Create a VisualForce page with the below code
<apex:page standardController="Account">
<apex:pageblock >
<apex:pageBlockSection >
<apex:outputLink value="/001B000000NBkJP" id="Acc" >
test Account
</apex:outputLink>
</apex:pageBlockSection>
</apex:pageblock>
</apex:page>
(Replace account with any account Id from your org).
2.) Create a VisualForce tab for this page and include that tab in lightning console App.
3.)Open the tab in lightning console App and right click on Account name and open in new tab.
4.)You will get the below error in new tab
“Page Does Not exist “
Enter a Valid URL and Try again.
5.) The above scenario occurs when you use a lookup field with a apex:outputField tag and right click on it and open it in new tab.
Workaround
There is no workaround as of now but we are trying to provide more support to VF tags in lightning
Is it Fixed?
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