Setting custom state based on URL parameters

[marcuslate]

Hi, I’m trying to follow this tutorial here by @sridharan.s :

Architecture layout best practice: one page with multiple functions/groups vs multiple pages

Yep. If you change the URL parameter whenever users go to a different step, then when they click “back” it’ll take them to the prior step (since it had a different URL) instead of going all the back to the page before the 3 steps. Here’s how to do that. When users click, say, the “next button” to go from step 1 to step 2, then have that run a workflow that loads the same page with all 3 steps and set a parameter for step = 2 to be added to the URL. Run a workflow on page load to set a co…

I have done everything he says but the custom state does not respond to my URL. I think it might have something to do with the get custom state from URL part.

His workflow:

My workflow:

How do I “Get tab from page URL” (without manually writing tab)?

[NigelG]

That looks like you are trying to get a dynamic parameter name … but you just want tab.

So just type tab in Parameter Name.

[marcuslate]

@NigelG Yes okay, I set it to tab and it does not work still. I’m not sure what is wrong. I think nothing is responding to my url changes, even when reloading.

[NigelG]

That says “edit” not “tab” as the parameter.

[marcuslate]

@NigelG Ah I see how it works now, thanks

Do you know a way I can make it /dashboad/page instead of /dashboard?tab=page?

I seem to be able to do it with an external link action but that reloads the page.

[sridharan.s]

I don’t believe there is a way to structure it as /dashboard/page