Norm, You should be able to change the associated program for file extensions here: My Computer > Tools > Options > File Types > file extension. How are you handling the User Tool authentication? The Windows user name is easy enough to capture, but how do you handle feeding the User Tool the password? Or how are you bypassing the password? Stephen
________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 11:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Associating .ARTASK Files to VBS ** Hello everyone: I have a creative problem and I'd sincerely appreciate any/all suggestions or ideas. I don't even know if what I'm trying to do is possible, but I'm open to all ideas. I've written a neat little application that, when executed, launches the Remedy User client and logs the user on automatically. What I really like about it is that it also works with .artask attachments. That is, Remedy shoots the user a message: "You have a ticket assigned to you. Click the attachment below to view it." The user double clicks the attachment, and my executable first checks to see if Remedy is running. If it is not, it launches Remedy as the user logged on to the OS, and then it launches ARTask, which in turn, displays the ticket. It's a very simple (poor man's) SSO. It works great. Here's the problem. The application I wrote is, well, an application. That is, it's an .EXE. In my environment, putting new .EXE files on workstations is a no-no, but putting scripts (such as VBS) is perfectly fine. So I completely re-wrote the application as a VB script. It works fine...except for the .ARTASK association. Evidently in Windows XP, one cannot associate a file to be run by a VB script the way one would, say, associate a .DOC file be opened with Word. So now I'm stuck. I need some way to change the file association of .ARTASK to ARtask.exe to .ARTASK to custom VBS. Any ideas? Norm __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
