Menu application with link to external app

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#1

Hy,
I have a menu application in Project 1 referring to several apps in Project1
How can I add an option to this menu application referring to an external application in Projet2 ?

I know I can just copy the external app from Project2 to Project1 and then acces this app form the menu, but I don’t want to have two copies of the same app in different projects for maintance reasons.

Thanks for your help.

#2

You can simply create a blank app with a redirect to your project 2 url
Hope that helps

Kevin

#3

Thanks. It works perfecting.

#4

I’ve used the method above before and it works well.

  • From the Project 1 menu I call a control app which sc_redir() to the Project 2 app.
  • The Project 2 app is a control app (like a listener) which then processes the P2 links.
However, I now want to pass a parameter to project 2 from project 1 and am struggling to make it work [LIST=1]
  • I don't want to pass the parameter in the URL as it has some 'slightly' sensitive information in it (this works, but even encrypted is not really safe)
  • I've fiddled with Session and Global variables, but can't get them to work (I suspect that the Project 2 app is doing something to them or is recognising a separate session (P1 is v8.1Project and P2 is v9 project))
  • I'm reluctant to use a database field as I'm not sure how I could ensure the right record (For the right session) is read by the project 2 app. (In a multi user/multi session scenario) [/LIST] I'm hoping I've just missed something...

    Any ideas/suggestions?