How do I link through to a child of a tab from the side menu

[scorney]

I’m building an app roughly based around the architecture of the Ionic conference app.

I would like to use the side menu to provide quick links to a page which is a child of a tab.

So the user will click a link in the side menu and the relevant tab will open with the required page pushed onto its navigation stack.

Has anyone tried to tackle a similar issue? Does Ionic support this kind of navigation or should I be looking at trying a different approach?

[doron]

I think my answer here tackles this issue

ViewChild, undefined

Ok, I finally figured it out. This problem is solved for me now. Getting tabs and side-menu working together (also using @ViewChild) – or… “Why is my @ViewChild(Tabs) property undefined?” Short answer: If Tabs is only in the code and not in the template, you get undefined in the code. If it’s in the template as well, it works. Long answer: If you already have a TabsPage component class in its own folder with scss and html and js/ts files, follow this to get it to work with your sidemenu: d…

[scorney]

Hi Doron,

Thanks for the reply!

I haven’t had a chance to test it but I’m thinking deeplinking could be the answer to this one… http://blog.ionic.io/deeplinking-in-ionic-apps/