Open ax new instance of ax via a job

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Hi all,

I want to open a new instance of AX 2009 via a job . The same i want to further extend to EP and open the ax 2009 from the EP site .

Can anyone please share his ideas on this issue please.

Thanks,

Vikas Mehta.

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static void Job6(Args _args)
{

;
WinApi::shellExecute(“ax32.exe”);

}

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Thanks Volodymyr.

My half task is over I wan tto do the same with Enterprise Portal .

i am able to do the same with VB on a button click , But when I try the same IN Enterprise Portal It does not work.

The code i used for VB is as follows:

using System.Diagnostics;

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Process process = new Process();
process.StartInfo.FileName = “Ax32.exe”;// str;
process.Start();
}
}

I guess there is some namespace I am missing while coding in EP.

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The solution from EP is as follows (i presume that you already have a page in EP that you can alter to hold this code and you will be browsing it from a computer that has installed the client):

  1. add this to your web control code - anywhere it suits the code:

a)

b)

<asp:Button runat=“server” ID=“btnRunAX” Text=“RunAX” />

  1. add this to the code behind:

public void Page_Load()
{
this.btnRunAX.Attributes.Add(“onClick”, “runAX();”);
}

This should do the trick, almost … now you have to set the rights to run scripts from your page (on my test machine I added the EP site to the Local Intranet zone and set the Security level to Low).

There can be a couple of other ways (variations) on how to do this, but basically this is one.

Hope this helps,

Iulian.

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Thanks Lulian for your help that really helped me out.

One more out of box question , do you know where does the “Report is Empty” warningcomes when i print a proforma confirmation report.

thanks.

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You are welcome.

From what I tested the ‘Report is Empty’ is a system warning that can’t be changed to behave otherwise (you could only change the text to display using the EmptyReportPrompt on the report’s designs standard node), but that’s it; i imagine it is triggered when no Send call is done from the Fetch … (I may be wrong however).