How can I launch a program from an FPMI control (i.e. a button). I’d like to use the FPMI URL (localhost:8080/gateway/launch/project.jnlp) to launch this project and others from an overview project. Can I? Should I?
First of all, for reference, you launch a URL from FactoryPMI with the fpmi.net.openURL function. You can find the manual page with examples here http://www.inductiveautomation.com/products/factorypmi/usermanual/source/technical/jython/modulesnet.htm#openURL
You could certainly use this to launch one FactoryPMI project from within another. However, even better would be to use the retargetting feature! This feature is made for exactly this, but has the added benefit that A) it launches another FPMI project from within the same client and B) If your user credentials work with both projects, you don’t have to re-login.
If this sounds like what you’re trying to accomplish, see the manual page here http://www.inductiveautomation.com/products/factorypmi/usermanual/source/technical/jython/modulessystem.htm#retarget
Hope this helps,
Excellent. Thanks.