The Application element is used to configure an external application to open from within the Front Office Scanning client. This external application is launched by clicking the Launch Application toolbar button in the Front Office Scanning toolbar.
<Application>
<Command>"C:\Program Files\Hyland\Disconnected Scanning\disconnectedscan.exe"</Command>
<Tooltip>Click to launch OnBase Disconnected Scanning</Tooltip>
</Application>
Only one external application can be configured to open from within Front Office Scanning(i.e., only one Application element can be present in any given Front Office Scanning configuration file).
For more information on this feature, see Configuring Front Office Scanning to Launch Another Application.
The following settings are found in the Application element:
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Application Element Settings |
Description |
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Command |
This setting allows you to specify the command line for the application that is to be opened from within Front Office Scanning. Note:
When the Application element is present in the Front Office Scanning configuration file, a valid Command setting is required. The command line is entered directly between the Command tags and it must be enclosed in quotation marks. For example: <Command>"C:\Program Files\Hyland\Disconnected Scanning\disconnectedscan.exe"</Command> Additionally, the Command setting can contain the %username% and %password% variables to pass user credentials from the Front Office Scanning client to the external application For example, the Command setting demonstrated below will automatically launch OnBase Disconnected Scanning using the same user name and password credentials that were used to log onto the Front Office Scanning client. <Command>"C:\Program Files\Hyland\Disconnected Scanning\disconnectedscan.exe -AL UN=%username% -PW=%password%"</Command> |
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Tooltip |
This setting allows you to specify the tooltip text that is displayed when a user holds the pointer over the Launch Application toolbar button on the Front Office Scanning toolbar. The tooltip text that you would like displayed to the user is entered directly between the tooltip tags. |