Trying to close MS Teams meeting app sidepanel view programatically - microsoft-teams

I developed an MS Teams meeting app which based on documentation, when added to a meeting would have a tab-config dialog for example like here.
After we click Save, we would get the sidepanel view of the app for example like here.
I am wondering if there is any way or meeting api available to close the sidepanel view or close the app programmatically rather than the user clicking the cross icon or removing the app.
Thanks!

Currently there is no option to close the meeting sidepanel programmatically.
Could you please raise a user voice here:
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/filters/new

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Update
There's a bug in teams-js which is causing getContext to return an empty string for subEntityId, a required field for deeplinking to an app within a channel within a team.
Original Question
I have a requirement to link from a Personal Tab app to a Channel Tab app. Is this possible? If so, how do you do it? I couldn't find any relevant info in the docs.
Detail
We have an app which runs in the Channel Tab and the Personal Tab. If you're viewing our app from your Personal Tab, you'll see a list of items which when clicked should navigate to our app in a Channel Tab associated with the clicked item. The channel could be under a different team, but it will be in the same organization, and you are already a member of that team and channel.
You can accomplish this via Deep Linking. See more at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/concepts/build-and-test/deep-link-application?tabs=teamsjs-v2#generate-a-deep-link-to-your-tab but specifically here is an example cited in that page:
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https://teams.microsoft.com/l/entity/fe4a8eba-2a31-4737-8e33-e5fae6fee194/tasklist123?webUrl=https://tasklist.example.com/123&label=Task List 123&context={"channelId": "19:cbe3683f25094106b826c9cada3afbe0#thread.skype"}

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