shinydashboard (version 0.7.1)

updateTabItems: Change the selected tab on the client

Description

This function controls the active tab of tabItems from the server. It behaves just like updateTabsetPanel.

Usage

updateTabItems(session, inputId, selected = NULL)

Arguments

session

The session object passed to function given to shinyServer.

inputId

The id of the tabsetPanel, navlistPanel, or navbarPage object.

selected

The name of the tab to make active.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## Only run this example in interactive R sessions
if (interactive()) {

ui <- dashboardPage(
  dashboardHeader(title = "Simple tabs"),
  dashboardSidebar(
    sidebarMenu(
      id = "tabs",
      menuItem("Dashboard", tabName = "dashboard", icon = icon("dashboard")),
      menuItem("Widgets", tabName = "widgets", icon = icon("th"))
    ),
    actionButton('switchtab', 'Switch tab')
  ),
  dashboardBody(
    tabItems(
      tabItem(tabName = "dashboard",
        h2("Dashboard tab content")
      ),
      tabItem(tabName = "widgets",
        h2("Widgets tab content")
      )
    )
  )
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  observeEvent(input$switchtab, {
    newtab <- switch(input$tabs,
      "dashboard" = "widgets",
      "widgets" = "dashboard"
    )
    updateTabItems(session, "tabs", newtab)
  })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)
}
# }