topic Button to launch an application in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Button-to-launch-an-application/m-p/51250#M8479 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello all developers</P><P>I am trying to create a button that will launch ACCESS,&nbsp; start an APPLICATION and pass the /User USERNAME /pwd PASSWORD string to open the application.</P><P>In the Actions tab of the Button, under Launch, I can manually enter the required string and the application opens correctly but if I try to pass the string as a variable the launch fails.</P><P>Why does the variable not get resolved to the string in this tab?</P><P></P><P>The actual string in the the FileName box in the Action tab should be:</P><P>APPLICATIONName /user UserName /pwd UserPassword</P><P></P><P>I tried setting the variable vVariableString as</P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"> = 'APPLICATIONName /user ' &amp; UserName &amp; ' /pwd&nbsp; ' &amp; UserPassword</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">and as</SPAN></P><P> 'APPLICATIONName /user ' &amp; UserName &amp; ' /pwd&nbsp; ' &amp; UserPassword</P><P></P><P>=vVariableString nor =$(vVariableString) seemed to work</P><P></P><P>any ideas?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 17 May 2018 17:54:18 GMT jduenyas 2018-05-17T17:54:18Z Button to launch an application https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Button-to-launch-an-application/m-p/51250#M8479 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello all developers</P><P>I am trying to create a button that will launch ACCESS,&nbsp; start an APPLICATION and pass the /User USERNAME /pwd PASSWORD string to open the application.</P><P>In the Actions tab of the Button, under Launch, I can manually enter the required string and the application opens correctly but if I try to pass the string as a variable the launch fails.</P><P>Why does the variable not get resolved to the string in this tab?</P><P></P><P>The actual string in the the FileName box in the Action tab should be:</P><P>APPLICATIONName /user UserName /pwd UserPassword</P><P></P><P>I tried setting the variable vVariableString as</P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"> = 'APPLICATIONName /user ' &amp; UserName &amp; ' /pwd&nbsp; ' &amp; UserPassword</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">and as</SPAN></P><P> 'APPLICATIONName /user ' &amp; UserName &amp; ' /pwd&nbsp; ' &amp; UserPassword</P><P></P><P>=vVariableString nor =$(vVariableString) seemed to work</P><P></P><P>any ideas?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 17 May 2018 17:54:18 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Button-to-launch-an-application/m-p/51250#M8479 jduenyas 2018-05-17T17:54:18Z Re: Button to launch an application https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Button-to-launch-an-application/m-p/51251#M8480 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Try it with quotes: '$(vVariableString)'</P><P></P><P>- Marcus</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 18 May 2018 14:35:58 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Button-to-launch-an-application/m-p/51251#M8480 marcus_sommer 2018-05-18T14:35:58Z