Opening multiple links with a single trigger point (Canvas App)

[thrishik]

Hi,

I have a vertical gallery in a Canvas App, which has buttons and each button refers to sharepoint files.

Is there a way to create a separate button on the screen, on click of which to achieve triggering the click of all those buttons available in the gallery.

In other words, can we open multiple urls on click of a single button assuming the urls being fetched from gallery data.

Any information on the feasibility would be appreciated.

Thanks.  

[StalinPonnusamy]

Hi @thrishik 

This is definitely possible. onselect button property 

Launch(ThisItem.Website)

Update "ThisItem.Website" to your data field

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[BCLS776]

If you have properly formatted URLs in your gallery, you could try:

ForAll (Gallery1.AllItems, // Put the proper name of your gallery here
    Launch(ThisRecord.URL); // URL refers to the URL value in the gallery item record
)

However, this will launch a separate browser window for each URL in the gallery...

[thrishik]

Hi @StalinPonnusamy ,

looks like there was a misunderstanding, My aim to provide a common button which can open all the gallery links on a single click at once.

[StalinPonnusamy]

Hi @BCLS776 

I tried your option but not seams works. It always only one. Any thoughts?

[BCLS776]

@StalinPonnusamy I am seeing the same issue as you - thanks for pointing it out. I can confirm the ForAll loops correctly, but the Launch() is resulting in only one new browser window. This may be on the browser's side - it is ignoring further requests for a new window until the first one has launched and is completely mounted. I will see if I can find a workaround for it.

[BCLS776]

To add to my last post, the ForAll code I shared operates at a rate of 3-10 milliseconds per Launch() call. I can't think of a reason why a browser would allow new windows to open at that rate without blocking it as some sort of security vulnerability.

@thrishik can you help us understand better why you need so many URLs opened at once? Perhaps we can make a better suggestion for you.

[thrishik]

@BCLS776 , 

there will be multiple SharePoint documents in the gallery and the user feels like it's too much work to go and click on every link when there are multiple files. So, they requested a way to function that on a single click to launch all the links available in the gallery.

Also I did try your first suggestion before posting this query in community and I have tried all the possibilities I could by searching through documentation but I didn't find a possible way.

So, reaching out in community if anybody can firmly can if this is feasible or not and if feasible then what might be the possible way to achieve it.

Thanks for the time and do let me know in case of any possible solution/workaround if you are aware of.