Best way to open M-Files link via UIX

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Just wondering what the best way to open an M-Files Show link: m-files://show/.... 
 Via UIX? Something like an href also opens the browser, is there an internal method to pass the link or reference to the object and open it?

Dr. Martin Lisowski · Answer

Assuming you want the M-Files object in a new M-Files window (i.e. not open the file in the default application): 
 Have you tried the ICommonFunctions.ExecuteURL() API? 
 https://userguide.m-files.com/UI_Extensibility_Framework/#MFClientScript~ICommonFunctions~ExecuteURL.html 
 It should work on the desktop client in legacy UIX v1. 
 For the classic web client you have to hack together an URL from MFiles.SiteLocation() and the object GUID. But probably not worth investing into this since the classic web client is basically phased out.

Craig Hawker · Answer

MFilesSamplesAndLibraries/Samples/UIX Applications/OpenExternalApplicationOnCommand at master &middot; M-Files/MFilesSamplesAndLibraries (github.com) 
 The line in question is this one: https://github.com/M-Files/MFilesSamplesAndLibraries/blob/1dc12368147c41b0d6b7c3a94b5220de51e082a1/Samples/UIX%20Applications/OpenExternalApplicationOnCommand/main.js#L64 
 That said: note that this approach (using WScript.Shell) is not compatible with the new version of the UIX and the new clients that we discussed at our conference this year. It would be significantly better to probably use the web-style links which will be able to be opened using the UIX.

Best way to open M-Files link via UIX

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