Externally link to specific tabPanel in Shiny App

Question

It\'s possible to use anchor links in flat Shiny apps relatively easily - https://stackoverflow.com/a/28605517/1659890.

However, is it possible for an external link

Answer 1

You could add a search query parameter to the URL (eg. href='www.myapp.com?tab=tab2), and in the app that is being linked you would have to add a bit of logic that changes to a specified tab on initialization if the search string is present (eg. look at session$clientData$url_search and if it exists and there's a tab variable, then use updateTabsetPanel() to go to that tab)