Launch application on a local machine when link clicked

[kristenankeny]

We would like to have forms for the software people can download through our SCCM Client on their computers. On this form, we'd like to provide a link that will launch the application. How can we go about doing this? I created a UI Macro and a variety of links such as http://file:///C:\....., file:\\\C/..., C:/..., but none seem to function. This is the current one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">
   <a href="file:///Windows\folder1\folder2\application.exe" target = "_blank">Software Center</a>
</j:jelly>

[sachin_namjoshi]

Hi,

You can create UI action to lauch application from Service now platform.

Below post has helpful code to achieve this kind of requirement

Launch RDP from UI Action

Regards,

Sachin

[kristenankeny]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this out within a UI Macro (I'm dealing with a catalog item), but unfortunately the code demonstrated in this link would only function in IE and not Chrome. Our company uses a variety of browsers, so I need something that I can script in jelly that will launch the application. We thought this would be simple, but unfortunately it's turning out not to be.

[sachin_namjoshi]

Hi,

You can also put .exe file on mid server and run this .exe file so that it works for any browser.

Regards,

Sachin

[Shane J · Accepted solution]

Isn't this really something you can't do, due to browser security meant to combat malware?