The workspace API allows you to perform console-related tasks that include opening tabs and subtabs and to adding focus to opened tabs and subtabs. To use the API, you need to include the Lightning Component Lightning :workspaceAPI in the component.
The following shows the code snippet on how to use the API:
<aura:component implements="flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes" access="global">
<Lightning :workspaceAPI aura:id="workspace"/>
<Lightning :button label="Close Focused Tab" onclick="{!c.closeFocusedTab}"/>
</aura:component>
The controller code is as follows:
({ closeFocusedTab : function(component, event, helper) { var workspaceAPI = component.find("workspace"); workspaceAPI.getFocusedTabInfo().then(function(response) { ...
