We have a perspective application that its running using the perspective workstations client in kiosk mode as we want to eliminate distractions as much as possible.
there are a few external links that Operators need to access from time to time (a few Field - PanelViews using VantagePoint and other intranet tools). For those we are using the system.perspective.navigate and sending them to a new window, currently we have the Tab/Links set to "system browser" so it opens chrome, however the problem we are facing is that the tabs open in the background and operators dont understand whey they cannot see them, they keep clicking and new "tabs" are being openned on the browser.
Is there a way to allow the new chrome tab to be open ontop of the kiosk sessions?
All these stations are multimonitor setup, in most cases all monitors are covered by perspective sessions.
Instead of using navigate, could you utilize the Inline Frame perspective component? this way you can control how and when that pops up and goes away.
Otherwise, you really have no control over how the windows are managed because that is an OS thing. You could configure a Workstation Mode toggle:
but you are then trusting users to open back up the application and set it back to kiosk.
Maybe when you navigate to an intranet option the screen changes to have a button in the center that says return to HMI/Kiosk Mode and then it sets back to Kiosk from windowed, but that still feels like a call from the production team waiting to happen because someone accidentally exited out of the perspective workstation.
The inline frame did not work due to some security settings on the web application that we are launching.
With help from the Support Team, we were able to identify the problem, this is a multimonitor application, if one of the operators moves the browser to any other display that its not themain it doesnt show anymore, we need to make sure the browser is set to open on the primary display.
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