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General information

This action starts an external program on your the computer that runs the Axxon One client.

The external program is started starts on all Clients clients that are connected to the domain.

Note
titleAttention!

The external program is not started on a doesn't start on the computer that is an Axxon One Server server, if the Client is not client isn't running on the computer when a macro is triggeredinitiated.

Configuring an action

To configure the action, do the following:

  1. Go to the Programming tab.
  2. In the Event rules or Cycle rules list, click Create... (see Configuring macros).
  3. Select a start condition that triggers
  4. Configure the conditions to start
  5. a macro (
  6. see Configuring filters for event-driven macros).On all Clients
  7. see Configuring start conditions).
  8. Click the Image Added button below start conditions.
  9. From the drop-down list, select General: Run external application on client.
  10. In the Path to file parameter, enter the path to the program's executable
  11. /run file (1)
  12. file on all clients. You can specify a network path.
  13.  

  14. Image RemovedSelect
  15. Image Added
  16. In the Role parameter, select the role for users of

  17. the (external) program (2).
  18. which the program will be run.

  19. In the Launch parameters parameter, specify the launch parametes if necessary
  20. You can also add command-line options (3)
  21. . When you start an external program, its work directory
  22. matches the one in which
  23. coincides with the directory where the executable file is located. If there is a file in the
  24. startup
  25. launch parameters and it is located in the directory with the
  26. program's
  27. executable file of the program, you
  28. do not
  29. don't need to specify the path to it.
  30.  

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  1. Info
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  1. Note

    To run

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  1. a program that requires Administrator privileges, you

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  1. must either disable UAC (

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  1. In Windows 10 OS, you

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  1. must make edits to

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  1. the registry)

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  1. or

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  1. run the Axxon One client as Administrator.

  2. Click the Apply Image Added button.

Configuration of the Run external application on client action is complete.