Is there a way to configure an LTI tool Course Navigation Link to open in a new window?

[douglas_hall]

...Without resorting to loading a page with a button in the iframe.

[MattHanes]

There is a really bootleg way of doing it. If you have access to the global javascript or the javascript for the subaccount that the course is under, you can add a property to the link that will cause it to open in a new window. I just tried it with our Office Mix LTI link and it worked. You just need to know the course number and the external tool number. The external tool number can be seen by viewing the hyperlink for that that tool. Code looks like this:

$("[href='https://community.canvaslms.com/courses/<course #>/external_tools/<tool #>']").prop('target', '_New')

[douglas_hall]

Thanks. I was hoping there was an undocumented way of doing it through the LTI tool config which would be the ideal scenario for my use case.

[karl]

Unfortunately, we don't have a clear cut way to allow course navigation LTI links to open directly in a new tab. Even for some of our own tools we launch the iframe with a button advising the user to click to open in a new tab which isn't ideal. This is something we have heavily debated internally for a long time and I do see something happening in the future to better enable this, but I can't comment on a timeline or provide further details at this time.

[sniedinger]

I got it working too by it opening a new tab/window when you navigate to our bespoke external tool, however it just opens a new Canvas session in the new tab where the tool is still showing in the iframe. I don't want the external tool to show in the iframe. Is there a way this can be done? Thank you.

[sniedinger · Accepted solution]

FYI,

I got it working in the following way..

I created a new page Canvas landing page shown in the canvas iframe with a button that redirects to my external tool 'home' page

which has the following html element..

<base target="_blank" />