From server-side application, launch client-side file?
Are either of these possible?
From a word document hosted by terminal server and accessed via SGD: user clicks on a hyperlink to C:\file.doc and it launches that file on the user's computer using that user's copy of MS word (rather than on the app server)?
From a document management system hosted by terminal server and accessed via SGD: The system stores the file path of documents on the user's local area network. When the user wants to launch a file, he clicks on a button and that launches the file on his local area network using his local copy of MS word (just a thought: would involve passing the path from the app server to SGD server then to the local computer. Maybe via the tcc client?)
Am thinking of several applications of this kind of thing, these are just 2 examples. Would really help us build server-side apps that run as if they are local (and would definitely up our license count of SGD). Thank you
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cbarbera] at [2007-11-26 20:18:29]
# 1
> Are either of these possible?
>
> From a word document hosted by terminal server and
> accessed via SGD: user clicks on a hyperlink to
> C:\file.doc and it launches that file on the user's
> computer using that user's copy of MS word (rather
> than on the app server)?
http://docs.sun.com/source/819-6255/attr_scottatrylocalwindowsapplication.html
> From a document management system hosted by terminal
> server and accessed via SGD: The system stores the
> file path of documents on the user's local area
> network. When the user wants to launch a file, he
> clicks on a button and that launches the file on his
> local area network using his local copy of MS word
> (just a thought: would involve passing the path from
> the app server to SGD server then to the local
> computer. Maybe via the tcc client?)
>
> Am thinking of several applications of this kind of
> thing, these are just 2 examples. Would really help
> us build server-side apps that run as if they are
> local (and would definitely up our license count of
> SGD). Thank you
# 2
Thanks for the response - have seen this help article - how do I implement this? The article seems to be about launching an application from the webtop, but that's not what I'm trying to do.
Our effort is to completely integrate server-based applications with local applications, so that, for example, a user can be in a server-based (SGD hosted) database and click a link that opens a webpage or flash movie in that user's local browser (don't want to waste resources on the app server).
Or, again, in the server-based database, the user may click a link to a document stored on the end user's network and it needs to launch that document in the end user's copy of Word (or whatever application based on the file extension).
Sorry if I'm not being clear...
any help would be appreciated as it's critical to us to integrate server-based and local apps
