How to populate a link attribute that will export as an active link in Word reports

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Donald Dillon on December 21, 2010

Hello ARIS community,

1. I am looking for an ARIS 7.02 solution that will migrate to 7.1.

2. In our Application System Type objects we use the link 1 attribute to provide a link to the application. This works very well for web based applications, however it does not work well for regularly installed applications on our PCs.

2.a. I am populating (for example) the Application Word with the link attribute winword.exe.

3. If I go into ARIS and F7 (run) the application it launches Word with no problems.

4. In our ARIS reports which produce a Word based output the system does not populate the attribute correctly. (see attached picture)

5. Any suggestions?

In ARIS

In resulting Word output

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Torsten Haase on January 10, 2011 - 11:05

Hi Donald,

it seems, you have taken the attribute text content ("Winword.exe") directly as it is and wrote it to the output document using OutputLink. OutputLink needs the protocol to determine whether it is a document-local link or an external link (file, web resource, mail address), so simply add the protocol "file://" to the output and it should behave like inside ARIS.

BR,

Torsten

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Donald Dillon Author on January 10, 2011 - 14:33

Torsten,

I have tried this and get different errors now:

ARIS= "file://excel.exe"

word document output= on mouseover file:///\\excel.exe

word document output when I edit hyperlink "\\excel.exe"

in my wimdows run dialog box "excel", "excel.exe" will both cause Excel to run. Neither of the above 2 output formats will cause excel to run.

Any other formatting suggestions?