open vlookup link in new tab with different view?

[Jeff Lynch]

I am using a discussion list as the vLookup for Products. When a client clicks the edit or view button they get the OOTB list view. When you go to the discussion board and open it, there is a different page called /flat.aspx that is opened and it displays a more traditional discussion format.

Can we launch that view from in the vLookup?

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
Sorry for the delay – I get a lot of questions and sometimes fall a bit behind. You should remove the “view” and “edit” buttons from vLookup and add a custom link like this:

Add the field “FileDirRef” to the ViewFields section in vLookup, and add this to the “Special configuration”:

{"function":"buildLinkToFlatView"}

Then add this to the Custom JS:

function buildLinkToFlatView(a,b){
    return "<a href='"+a+"/flat.aspx?RootFolder="+a+"/"+b.get_item("Title")+"' target='_blank'>Link</a>";
}

See attached images.

Let me know how this works out.

Alexander

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