# Direct Launch Vision Applicaition with Client Launcher

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/direct-launch-vision-applicaition-with-client-launcher/30945>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 27, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/direct-launch-vision-applicaition-with-client-launcher/30945 "2019-12-27T17:21:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/direct-launch-vision-applicaition-with-client-launcher/30945/1 "2019-12-27T17:21:49Z")

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Is there a way in Ignition 8 to launch a Vision client directly with the vision client launcher? Going through the documentation seems to suggest that you need to have a json config file in every users %username%.ignition\clientlauncher-data folder with the list of applications they can launch.

What I want is to just be able to give the user a .bat file that has parameters of what gateway and project and want to launch. But if the application is not setup in vision-client-launcher.json i get the error  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/7/7fb23c42f220acdf3becd7771d6ffeafe314aaaa.png)

I tried this

> \\networkShare\Native Client Launcher\8.0.7\visionclientlauncher.exe" -Dapplication=MyApp -Dgateway.address=[http://MyGatewayAddress](http://MyGatewayAddress)

Alternatively can I tell the vision client launcher to look for the vision-client-launcher.json file somewhere other than the user folder? If I could put it in a central location I would not have to distribute that file to all my users.