# Project Autorun

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-autorun/14395>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 25, 2017, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-autorun/14395 "2017-05-25T07:31:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![stefano\_marengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@stefano\_marengo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/stefano_marengo)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-autorun/14395/1 "2017-05-25T07:31:29Z")

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Hi All,  
Is there a way to run automatically a project once the gateway is started?  
Stefano

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**Author:** ![zxcslo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zxcslo/32/61610_2.png) [@zxcslo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zxcslo)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-autorun/14395/2 "2017-05-25T08:13:02Z")

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All projects are stored on the gateway. When the gateway has started all project are running also (unless they are disabled in gateway settings).  
But… you probably mean Clients???

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**Author:** ![stefano\_marengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@stefano\_marengo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/stefano_marengo)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-autorun/14395/3 "2017-05-25T09:49:53Z")

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Yes  
I need to open a project automatically on the client.  
Only once gateway is started to avoid the message “error contacting gateway”.  
In this specific case gateway and client are running on same machine.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-autorun/14395/4 "2017-05-25T15:20:39Z")

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If this is a Windows machine, I would suggest looking into Windows Task Scheduler and the Native Client Launcher. You could set up a windows shortcut/batch file that passes the requisite arguments into the NCL to launch the client.

[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/Native+Client+Launchers](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/Native+Client+Launchers)