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gitguygitguy 

How to find the page's URL from inside an embedded VF page using Javascript?

I've created a visualforce page using the Account standard controller inside the service console.

 

Under normal circumstances and normal embedded pages, the code below seems to work just fine.

 

currentPage = document.location.href;
if (window != window.top)
    currentPage = document.referrer;

 When window != window.top, then we're an iframe and document.referrer gives me the answer I want.

 

But, when I'm inside a service console layout, none of the attempts below seem to produce anything useable.

 

alert(document.location.href); 
alert(document.referrer); 
alert(window.top.location.href); 
alert(window.location.href);

 And certainly, none of them fit inside a visualforce URL datatype field limited to 255 characters, but that's another complaint.

 

Does anyone have an idea how I'm supposed to get a usable URL from inside an iframe on a service console page layout?

Best Answer chosen by Admin (Salesforce Developers) 
gitguygitguy

It turns out "document.referrer" isn't bad, but it is more than 255 characters--which means it can't be stored in a URL field.

 

So now I'm trying to find out how to change my url__c field from a URL type to a textarea of at least 2048 bytes.