Can you redirect to the previous page after a save or cancel?

How is the page you’re redirecting from being navigated? Can you pass a URL parameter into the page to use as your redirect ID?

“/{{$Param.redirId}}”

Great idea…not sure whether I can control the URL though. 

The tasks are most often being navigated to from a table of tasks. Either a table on the homepage (global task list) or an “open tasks” table on the contact detail. 

Not sure if there is a way to insert this parameter into the task name URL that’s generated within the table? 

Well. Hmmmm … you can control it sometimes. You are creating new tasks and then wanting to come back to the original record that the user clicked from to create the task. What are you using to get to the “NewTask” page? Row Action, Button, javascript?

Pat, you’re right. I realized I misstated the second scenario in my original post. The workflow would be more like, 

• Start on contact detail page
• navigate to existing task from the open tasks list
• Edit, close, save task
• Go back to contact detail page to do something else

Wait, I’m missing the obvious.

The Task is related to the record you’d like to navigate back to.

“/{{What}}” or “/{{Who}}”

Using mustache you can insert the correct one in the redirect.
{{#What}}/{{What}}{{/What}}
{{#Who}}/{{Who}}{{/Who}}

So unfortunately the two pages I want to redirect to would be either 

/{{who}} OR /home.jsp

But would want it to be smart enough to know which one was the referring page and go back there. That’s why I wondered if there was a token for “last page before this one or something similar”

Oh. sometimes from the home page. I see. hmmmm … I’m sure you can get the browser history, but I’m not sure to do that myself.

Use a javascript snippet with the following content:

window.history.back();

See… javascript. Can’t wait til it comes to me that easily. A one liner snippet!

I sometimes feel as though I’m playing t-ball and wildly swinging the bat way too high over and over …  :( It’s really hard to miss in t-ball for anyone with arms.

I’m still typing with my nose. 😛

@Moshe, that is awesome – thanks!

Just to clarify, would I leave the “redirect after save” field in the page title blank, and then for the save button, run multiple actions that would first save the model, then call the javascript snippet? 

Thanks again. 

Your clarification is correct.  Use a multiple actions sequence for the button…