Button on PO screen to launch custom EDD application

Question

Working to create a custom button on X3, v6 PO screen to launch a custom application to send the PO via EDD. We've created a button but upon selecting it X3 just spins and never produces the external application. Any thoughts out there or anybody done something similar? I'll have our programmer provide more details if needed, thanks!

Bryan Mulder · Accepted Answer

we just found a webpage that assisted in achieving the PO button to yield a webpage, thanks!

Delamater · Answer

On version 6 you can use the following code to launch a google browser. This works on my system. Your code looks like it should work. Perhaps remove that UIAdxPubSubFile and follow this example directly and see if google will even open first. If it does, then we can take a look a bit further. If it doesn't, then perhaps you are being blocked in some way? 
 
Anyways, here's the code and my approach: 
 
Callui RETVALUE="" With "UIAction=" + chr$(1) + "OpenFile", 
& "UILocalDir=" + chr$(1) + "HTTPS", 
& "UILocalFile=" + chr$(1) + "www.google.com"

To do this, I simply did the following: 
1. Add a new button to your screen 
- Data type = "A" 
- Input = Enter 
- Mandatory = No 
- Graphic Object = Icon 
- Default value - I gave it 102, but you can use something else 
 
2. Parameters for this button are 
- Type = Click 
- ACtion = SPE 
- Execution = Interactive 
- Deactivation = None 
 
3. In my SPE I put the code above 
 
4. Globally validate the window 
- Launch GESAWI 
- Bring up your window record 
- At the top press the global validation button

Then when you launch the screen you can launch the browser. 
 
Just a note, CALLUI is deprecated in the newer style programming, so when you get to that point you'll need to alter your coding.

Hope this helps. 
 
Bob

Sage X3

Button on PO screen to launch custom EDD application

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