Notes On Siebel

Shell command for Browser Script

May 5th, 2008

A question on the Oracle discussion forum last week prompted me to dig out a MetaLink article that I’ve never noted here. The question was “How to call a local executable from the browser”: the answer is to use browser script to instantiate a Windows Scripting Host ‘Shell’ ActiveX object, like so:

var objWSH = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
objWSH.Run("notepad.exe");

More detail on using the ActiveXObject is available in the post on Client-side DLLS.

Entry Filed under: Integration, Scripting, Siebel