Hello! I am trying to have a button in a perspective window open to a specific file explorer folder on the client pc. I have tried a few different solutions including system.util.execute and python library subprocess but haven't been able to get either to work. No errors are thrown but no explorer windows open either.
Whats the best way to open file explorer on the client PC from Ignition perspective?
Thanks!
Here is an example. This works as expected in script console and opens up File Explorer to the correct directory. When I try to implement on a button in a view, nothing happens:
It is unlikely you are going to be able to get this to work. All scripts in Perspective run on the gateway and do not have access to the filesystem on the client computer.
In vision how is this done? Trying to bring up a file that's located in file explore. I want to do that by using a symbol in the symbol factory and using the component scripting for a mouse click to do that.
Remove the containing square brackets, enclose your path in ", and since this is python, you'll need to escape your backslashes using another \, or use forward slashes instead.
All together your first line should be something like
If you scroll further down in the manual link that Kevin provided you should see example code.
Also, when posting code, please post it as formatted text, see Wiki - how to post code on this forum. It makes it easier for others to copy/test code instead of having to read off a picture and manually retype it.
As a warning, if this is a shared network drive you should be using full UNC paths instead of the mapped drive letter.
