Launch External Application from Dynamics AX 7

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Hello,

Does anyone know if it's possible to launch an external application from The New Dynamics AX 7? In AX 2012 we use WinAPI::ShellExecute to launch an application. Is it possible in AX 7? If so, how?

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RE: Launch External Application from Dynamics AX 7

Thanks, I think this should work. I'll investigate it further.

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RE: Launch External Application from Dynamics AX 7

What about registering a protocol hander (e.g. for myapp://) and simply providing an HTML link from AX?

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RE: Launch External Application from Dynamics AX 7

[quote user="Martin Dráb"]

What exactly do you want to achieve?

Do you want to execute an application on client, from the browser? Or do you want to run something on server, from the web application in Azure?

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I'd like to start an application locally on the user's machine (or on a local RDS). We have some legacy client applications (coded in VB6 and .NET WPF) which

we currently launch from AX 2012 using WinAPI::ShellExecute with everything running on our RDS. We are considering options of how we can continue to allow users to launch these legacy applications if we make the move to AX 7. Preferably we would launch the legacy executable on our RDS but we could have these applications installed locally on the user's desktop.

Since the client for AX 7 is a web browser, I am not sure how we can launch an application that is on the user's local client machine or our local RDS. We are considering migrating these legacy applications to web sites but were considering whether it will even be possible to launch an executable on the user's local machine or an RDS from the AX 7 application.

Thanks for any feedback you can provide on this!

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RE: Launch External Application from Dynamics AX 7

What exactly do you want to achieve?

Do you want to execute an application on client, from the browser? Or do you want to run something on server, from the web application in Azure?

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RE: Launch External Application from Dynamics AX 7

[quote user="Denis Macchinetti"]

Hi

Take a look how work Open button on the DocuView form.

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Thanks for the suggestion, Denis. I am struggling to see how DocuView can help me. I looked at the Open button of the DocuView form and I can see that it calls the main method of the DocuAction class. From here it looks like we call the run method of the DocuAction class and there is a case statement that can handle adding, printing, or showing documents. Can we use this to launch an external application? I have my company's legacy (VB6 and .NET) applications that I would like to be able to open from The New Dynamics AX 7. I wasn't sure if this will be possible with AX 7 like we are able to do with AX 2012 and previous using WinAPI::ShellExecute since AX 7 is web based.

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RE: Launch External Application from Dynamics AX 7

Hi

Take a look how work Open button on the DocuView form.

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