Create link directly to specific tab in adminhtml customer edit page?

Question

I have created an extension that adds a custom tab in the adminhtml customer interface. After submitting the form on the page, how can I return the user to my custom tab instead of the default tab on customer edit.

This is the code I use to return to the customer edit page in my controller

$redirect = $this->resultFactory->create(ResultFactory::TYPE_REDIRECT);
$redirect->setUrl($this->_redirect->getRefererUrl());
return $redirect;

• Todd: I am aware of a url piece/param "active_tab", but cannot find an example of how to use it.
• Todd: In the orders adminhtml tab construct, I can do this: /sales/order/view/order_id/81248/active_tab/order_creditmemos/key/mybigkeystring/ order_creditmemos comes from name of the corresponding tab element, such as: <a href="#sales_order_view_tabs_order_creditmemos_content" id="sales_order_view_tabs_order_creditmemos" name="order_creditmemos" title="Order Credit Memos" .... > However, I have observed that none of the customer tabs have a name property on the link. Is this an oversite or do the customer tabs not conform or perhaps were not fully redeveloped from Magento 1.9x?
• Todd: I'm seeing now that the entire customer tab widget is one big form that gets saved all together, whereas the order tab widget is not fundamentally a giant form. This probably explains why my plan is not working (even though I am able to submit my own form and take actions and return to the customer edit page, just not the right tab).

Answer 1

@todd active_tab works, just need to remember that need to use tab name from xml file

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instead # from link

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return $this->resultRedirectFactory->create()->setPath(
 'sales/order/view',
 [
 'order_id' => $orderId,
 'active_tab' => 'sales_order_additional_items',
 ]
);