Is it possible from within an element display to use a button with associated QAction to launch another application on the users PC?
From what I can gather looking through Dataminer Development Guide I’m leaning towards it not being possible.
The background for this request is for devices that aren’t compatible in the inbuilt Web Interface viewing option (ie: Flash or Java devices) for the user to click a button that launches the application required instead of trying to display the webinterface within Cube Client
Hi Sam, as far as I know that’s not possible in a QAction, but it can be done in an automation script, using the RunClientProgram() method. That method can run an application that is installed on the client machine.
To make it convenient to run the automation script, a button could be added to the visual overview of the element. The element ID can be passed to the script in order to give it some context.
In Visual Overview, you can use the ‘Link’ shape data to launch a local application.