For flexdashboard specifically, how to update selected tab on client

[Anh V.]

With Shiny, there is updateTabsetPanel, and for shinydashboard, there is updateTabItems. What do I do for flexdashboard?

Thanks immensely,

ANV

[Bárbara Borges]

I don't think this is possible since you create tabsets in flexdashboard with markdown, instead or R code...

[Anh V.]

Hmm, that makes things a little harder. Appreciate your input. I suppose I'll just have to learn how to do this with custom javascript, then. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

[Bárbara Borges]

Does your project have to be in flexdashboard? flexdahsboard is a much more limited tool than shinydashboard/shiny, and it only really shines when you want to make something simple, that won't require updates or complex interactions...

[Anh V.]

I'll probably explore shinydashboard at some point, but for this project I've already written most of it for flexdashboard. Since I only needed to change the active tab if the app was being reloaded after an oauth2 redirect, I just checked the url string for that condition and have the document include something like below.

<script>window.location.hash = '#section-page-3';</script>

For interactive use, I think you can have the js function handled with session$sendCustomMessage to change the tab section.

The app is here: https://datavu.shinyapps.io/MFP_miner/