I have a notes database that users can access from a web browser.
I want the users to be able to click on some text and have an application from their local pc launch, say for example cmd.exe.
I have two links, one for the Notes client (which I have working using @Execute) and one for browsers - where @Execute does not work.
I do not know how to launch an app from a browser link, any thoughts? Ideally one link would work under both the Notes client and a browser.
Thanks in advance.
Chris.
Subject: Launch an application from a web browser
You can do this with a combination of Javascript and ActiveX, which may well be limiting for your user base, I don’t know. Or you could try simple “URLs” to the c:\ drive – again, many points of failure, and limited in scope.
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Subject: RE: Launch an application from a web browser
I think you will find that IE is configured to not allow activities like that since it could easily be exploited by evil web developers.
Depending on your infrastructure, you could put the application or file that you want to launch on a network share and create a link to it something like this:
file:///\server\share\app.exe
Cheers,
Mark
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