Jan 27 2017 12:47 PM
Hi everyone,
Designing my next site model, and navigation automatically opens external links (even subsites or the parent, ie) in a new tab. This makes navigation difficult. Seems to me that I'm missing something, but maybe not.
Any way to change this action? Thanks.
Jan 28 2017 12:25 AM
SolutionJan 28 2017 03:20 AM
Jan 28 2017 04:28 AM
Jan 28 2017 04:29 AM
I would hope they wouldn't expect navigation, even to sub/parent sites, to warrant a new window each time. External sites? Sure, I can see that. But shouldnt be to the sub/parent sites.
Feb 07 2017 12:37 PM
I'm seeing this as well. Very confusing and unintuitive.
I have posted an idea on the sharepoint uservoice addressing the issue.
Please vote it up to get some attention on it!
Thanks
May 15 2017 07:34 AM
I'm seeing this also, it's going to make it challenging to get better users adoption.
Sep 26 2019 07:44 AM
I see that links now open in the same tab. However this is not always the right thing for all people. An option for the user to select opening in a new tab or not could be a setting. (I have looked and cannot find such a setting... However I may not be able to find it.) Is indeed it possible to allow this either as a browser wide setting or perhaps on a page by page by page basis? This may involve a slight design change.
I DO know however that sites can be coded to do this by the author of the site and it making this a browser wide setting may break site and he intended action of the author so perhaps it can be made to honor the authors intended action when it encounters a site so coded even if such a setting is available.
Jan 28 2017 12:25 AM
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