Add an Open URL Action

You add an Open URL action to navigate to an external URL. In a web app, this action opens the specified URL in the current window or in a new window.

To add an Open URL action to an action chain:

1. Open the Actions editor, for example, at the page level.
2. Create an action chain, or open an existing action chain to add the action in the editor.
3. Drag Open URL from the Navigation section of the Actions palette into the action chain.

   You can drag the action onto the Add icon (  ) in the action chain; typically this action will be the final action in the chain. The Properties pane opens when you add the action to the chain.

4. Enter the URL to navigate to.
5. Optional: Specify a key/value pair map of query parameters to pass to the specified URL as URL parameters.
6. Optional: Specify the hash entry to append to the URL. 
7. Define a Browser History value, either replace or push (default), to define the effect on browser history. This value is used only if the resource is used in the same window. If you choose replace, the current browser history entry is replaced instead of pushed, meaning that the back button will not go back to it.
8. Specify a name identifying the window as defined in the window.open() API. If not defined, the URL opens in the current window. For apps on mobile devices, you have three possible values: _self (default), _blank, or _system. For local file types, this property is ignored.

   Here's an example to open a new window in the browser with the given URL; if you specify a value for the Window Name (as shown here), once on the URL, the browser back button will re-enter the last page and the page input parameters will be remembered.
   
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