ViewX Hyperlinking to an HTTP URL

[dprett]

Hi there,

When using the Pick Action Wizard -> Hyperlink functionality, there is a checkbox for opening up the hyperlink inside ViewX as tab. When linking to a web site (as opposed to another mimic) this results in an HTML tab created inside ViewX.

I am interested in passing data from a ViewX session to the hyperlinked URL via URL params (e.g "http:localhost:9999/app?param1=value1". Using the Pick Action Wizard->Hyperlink method, you don't have the ability to dynamically create the URL to do this.

Instead, you must use a script utilizing the Mimic.Navigate function to dynamically create the URL like so:

sub OpenHyperlink()
	'Example value from ViewX session
	systemName = Mimic.SystemName
	'Pack into a string argument
	arg1 = "param1="+CStr(systemName)
	'Create the URL string
	url = "http://localhost:9999/app?" + arg1
	'Pass string to Mimic.Navigate function
	Mimic.Navigate(url)
end sub

The above code works as expected but opens the hyperlink in a standalone Browser instance.

Is there any way to tell the Mimic.Navigate script function to open the browser inside ViewX similar to the Pick Action Wizard functionality?

[sbeadle · Accepted solution]

You can animate the PickParam property - put the whole URL in that.

[dprett]

Not sure why I didn't think of that, thanks Steve!